[TOLONEWS] Residents of Paktia said that there have been festivities between the forces of the Islamic Emirate and Pakistain’s border guards for the past three days.
According to locals, during this period dozens of missiles have been fired by Pakistain, hitting people's residential houses.
The festivities started in Aryob Zazi district of Paktia and have recently spread to the Dand-e-Patan district.
The Islamic Emirate has not yet officially provided details about these festivities including any casualties resulting from them.
"It was ten o'clock and the fighting was intense; people with their children went by car towards Samkanai district," said Amir Khan, another resident of Paktia.
Local residents added that Pak forces targeted residential houses, and some families in Dand-e-Patan have been forced to leave their homes.
At the same time with the start of these festivities, the Kharlachi transit route in Dand-e-Patan has also been closed to any traffic.
"We ask them that whenever you commit a violation, you must not target the general public with artillery. The laws of war must be observed here," said Mohammad Anwar Sediqi, a resident of Aryob Zazi.
Don’t be ridiculous. Everyone knows the laws of war only apply to the [all bad things, so pick one or more, dear Reader] West.
"No one could handle their sorrow [about the situation]. The fierce fighting continued, and there were children and women on every side," said Sayedullah, a driver in Paktia.
Military analysts said that border festivities darken the relations between the two countries and that professional individuals should be deployed at the border line.
"The solution is to deploy responsible and professional individuals at the borders to prevent such unnecessary conflicts," said Sarwar Niazi, a military analyst.
Some Pak media outlets reported that in these festivities, one soldier from that country has died and four others have been maimed.
At the same time, a source told TOLOnews that five forces of the Islamic Emirate have also been injured in these festivities.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The International Federation of Red Thingy and Red Islamic Thingy Societies (IFRC) confirmed the death of Fadul Daw El-Bait Abdallah, a humanitarian worker with the Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese Red Islamic Thingy Society.
Reports indicate Abdallah was shot on May 11 while working with his team to collect humanitarian data in the Abu Haraz area of south-eastern Sudan. He died the following day, on May 12. During the same incident, another volunteer was beaten.
The IFRC strongly condemned the violence, emphasizing that humanitarian workers must be respected and protected under all circumstances. The Federation extended its deepest condolences to Abdallah’s family and colleagues, acknowledging the tragic loss.
This tragic incident highlights the grave dangers faced by humanitarian workers worldwide. Since the beginning of the year, twenty members of the IFRC network have bit the dust while performing their crucial humanitarian duties. The IFRC reiterated its call for the cessation of violence against humanitarian workers, asserting that "they are not a target".
The loss of Abdallah underscores the critical need for greater protection and respect for those who risk their lives to provide aid and support to vulnerable communities.
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We will not see Tony Gutiérrez protesting this.
[AFRICANEWS] Tunisia saw a wave of arrests targeting government critics, including journalists and lawyers, sparking concern from international allies.
President Kais Saied's administration launched a crackdown on perceived opponents, detaining activists like Saadia Mosbah and La Belle France 24 cameraman Hamdi Tlili. Lawyer Sonia Dahmani was also among those detained.
While Tlili was released without charges, radio journalist Borhen Bsaies and columnist Mourad Zeghidi were kept under pre-trial detention, accused of violating cybercrime laws by allegedly spreading fake news and undermining state security. Bsaies's lawyer highlighted a lack of clear evidence linking his client to these charges.
Criticism of the president often leads to accusations of undermining state security, signaling a broader attack on press freedom. Reporters Without Borders condemned the arrests, calling for an end to the government's authoritarian tactics.
These developments mark a troubling trend in Tunisia, where political arrests have become more frequent under President Saied's rule, raising concerns both domestically and among international partners.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , Tunisia's top trade partner, on Tuesday issued a rare rebuke of Tunisian authorities, calling the arrests worrisome.
"Freedoms of expression and association, as well as the independence of the judiciary, are guaranteed by the Tunisian Constitution and constitute the basis of our partnership," its spokesperson said in a statement.
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[AFRICANEWS] An Islamist group operating in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province used boys as young as 13 in attacks on a town last week and residents who were forced to flee the fighting recognized some of the child soldiers as their missing relatives, advocacy group Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , which is affiliated to 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, has previously been accused by UN agencies of kidnapping children and using them as soldiers in its insurgency in the region, which began in 2017. A surge of attacks by turbans in March left at least 70 children missing, according to local authorities and a group of aid agencies.
Witnesses told the rights group that dozens of child soldiers were used in the attacks and were seen carrying AK-style assault rifles and ammunition belts. Two people from the same family said they recognized their 13-year-old nephew among the children.
"I saw him with my own eyes," Abu Rachide, a resident of the town, told Human Rights Watch. He said the boy waved at him but marched on. Rachide's sister said the boy, who went missing earlier in the year, appeared to be taking instructions from older fighters.
"I kept wondering how he became a fighter like that in just four months," she told HRW.
The latest attacks on the town of Macomia began Friday and continued until the next day. Islamist fighters looted shops and warehouses for food and exchanged fire with Mozambican and South African soldiers before retreating, HRW and Mozambican media reports said.
At least 10 people, mostly soldiers, were reportedly killed in the latest fighting and about 700 residents fled to nearby forests to escape the attacks, according to the HRW report.
Recruiting children under the age of 15 as soldiers is a war crime under international law. In February judges at the International Criminal Court granted reparations of more than 52 million euros ($56 million) to thousands of victims of a convicted commander of a Ugandan rebel group, which included former child soldiers.
The attacks in Mozambique came days before the nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agency, which investigates environmental crimes, published a multi-year investigation alleging that millions of tons of timber had been exported illegally from Cabo Delgado to China since 2017 and the profits had been used to finance the insurgency.
The EIA said Tuesday that its investigation found that Chinese traders purchase "conflict timber" from turbans in Cabo Delgado "and export it alongside other wood" in violation of Mozambique's log export ban.
South Africa deployed soldiers to Cabo Delgado as part of a regional force to stem the insurgency, which began in 2017. In 2020, Islamist fighters beheaded dozens of people, many of them children, as the violence spiraled. After a period of relative inactivity, the turbans launched a new wave of attacks this year.
The regional troops announced that they had begun withdrawing from their positions ahead of a July deadline, although soldiers from Rwanda are expected to remain under a separate bilateral deal with Mozambique.
Aid agencies say the conflict forced more than a million people to flee their homes since it started in October 2017 and thousands have been killed. The insurgency also threatens a $20 billion natural gas project in Cabo Delgado.
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[Jerusalem Post] A knife-wielding woman threatening London Jews and hurling antisemitic abuse was arrested by Metropolitan Police on Wednesday, according to the Metropolitan Police and the Stamford Hill Shomrim Jewish neighborhood watch.
Police said that there were no reported injuries and that they had a 70-year-old woman in custody.
"That ain't going to save you," the knifewoman shouted as she threw the knife at a fleeing Jewish woman, according to a video published by the Shomrim on Thursday.
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[KavkazUzel] Four residents of Dagestan were fined for publishing symbols of the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda and the Caucasus Emirate on the Internet, and another resident of the republic was arrested for 15 days, the FSB reported.
According to the FSB border department for Dagestan, residents of the republic R. Abdulmuslimov, K. Ramazanov and M. Abdulkadirov were fined for publicly displaying the symbols of extremist organizations prohibited by Russian law. All three repented of their actions and voluntarily deleted the prohibited materials they had previously published on the Internet.
”Please don’t hurt us anymore!”
According to the department, extremist materials on the Internet were distributed by two other residents - Magomedov M. and Markin K. For inciting hatred or enmity, Megomedov was fined, and Markin was arrested for 15 days, RIA Dagestan reported today with reference to the FSB border department for republic.
We are talking about the dissemination of symbols of the international terrorist organizations "Islamic State", Al-Qaeda, "Caucasus Emirate", banned in Russia by court decision, the report said.
There were no comments from Abdulmuslimov, Ramazanov, Abdulkadirov, Magomedov and Markin or their representatives.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on August 12, 2022, a 24-year-old resident of the Kayakent district was suspected of involvement in the Islamic State. According to investigators, he went to Iraq, where he joined the ranks of a terrorist organization.
[BBC] French police have killed a man after a synagogue was set on fire in the north-western city of Rouen.
The man was reportedly armed with a knife and an iron bar and when he went towards the police, an officer shot him.
Rouen Mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol said the attack on the synagogue did not just affect the Jewish community, but the entire city was "battered and in shock".
Police were called at around 06:45 (04:45 GMT) after smoke was seen rising from the synagogue, according to local reports.
Firefighters at the scene eventually brought the fire under control inside the synagogue. There appeared to be no victims other than the armed man, the mayor said.
Damage inside the synagogue has been described as significant. "I'm really upset, it's catastrophic," said the head of Rouen's Jewish community, Natacha Ben Haïm.
She said a petrol bomb had been thrown through a small window, setting the synagogue alight. The walls and furniture had been left blackened by the fire, she added.
The local public prosecutor said two investigations were under way - into the arson attack on a place of worship and into the death of the man outside the building.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin praised police "for their responsiveness and courage ".
France, in common with the rest of Western Europe, has seen a surge in antisemitism since Hamas attacked southern Israel last October leading to the current war in Gaza.
Earlier this week a memorial in Paris that honours 3,900 men and women who helped rescue Jews during the Nazi occupation of France in World War Two was daubed with red-painted hands.
France has the third largest Jewish community in the world, after Israel and the US.
Rouen's places of worship have come under attack in the past. Eight years ago a priest was fatally stabbed while leading a church service.
The latest violence comes days after gunmen shot dead two prison officers in an ambush at a motorway toll south of the city. Convicted prisoner Mohamed Amra escaped during the attack and his still on the run.
A man suspected of seeking to set fire earlier today to a French synagogue was subject to an expulsion order, but authorities were not able to execute the measure pending an appeal, a source close to the case says.
The man, who was killed by police in the northern city of Rouen, had been subject to this measure for "less than a year," but it could not be carried out because he had filed an appeal to contest the order, the source adds.
[IsraelTimes] Protest one of many to sprout across Western European campuses over the past few weeks, emulating similar ones in US
Swiss police moved early on Wednesday to remove dozens of pro-Paleostinian student protesters holed up in the University of Bern, the school said in a statement.
Student demonstrations have gathered pace across Western Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... in recent weeks, with protesters demanding an end to 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 an 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... bloodshed and urging that their universities cut ties with Israel and businesses that support it.
Dozens of demonstrators had been occupying university premises since Sunday night. The students were demanding an "academic boycott of Israel institutions" and ignored a university ultimatum to leave the premises.
Swiss police acted following a request by the Bern university’s management, which had described the student occupation as "unacceptable."
The last of around 30 protesters left the Bern university early Wednesday. They chanted pro-Paleostinian slogans outside the building before leaving the area, a journalist from the Keystone-ATS agency said.
University rector Christian Leumann said in a statement published on Wednesday that he was open to talks but that "an occupation with politically motivated demands does not create an environment for constructive dialogue."
The first to mobilize in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... were students at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), with several hundred occupying a hall at the start of May and demanding an end to partnerships with Israeli universities. The university later responded in a statement that it "considers that there is no reason to cease these relations."
A small number of universities have seen student groups dismantle their own encampments as many colleges empty out for the summer, while activists on most other campuses have refused to let up, prompting police to carry out arrests.
Police arrested about 125 activists at the University of Amsterdam as they broke up its camp, and German police dismantled an encampment at Berlin’s Free University. Students have also held protests or set up encampments in Finland, Denmark, Italia, Spain, La Belle France and Britannia.
On Tuesday, Swiss police in Geneva removed around 50 pro-Paleostinian protesters from a university there.
[IsraelTimes] Protesters leave voluntarily as cops move in; school publishes examples of over 1,000 complaints about pro-Palestinian protests, including antisemitic harassment of students
Police began dismantling an anti-Israel encampment early Thursday at DePaul University in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... , hours after the school’s president told students to leave the area or face arrest.
Officers and workers in yellow vests cleared out tents and camping equipment at the student encampment, leaving behind yellow squares of dead or dying grass where the tents had stood. Front-loaders were being used to remove the camping equipment.
Just across the street from where the encampment was spread across a grassy expanse of DePaul’s campus known as "The Quad," a few dozen protesters stood along a sidewalk in front of a service station, clapping their hands in unison as an apparent protest leader paced back and forth before them, speaking into a bullhorn.
In videos from the scene broadcast on local media and social networks, protesters could be heard chanting anti-Israel slogans such as "Intifada, intifada," a reference to periods of deadly Paleostinian terror attacks against Israeli civilians in the late 1980s and early 1990s and again in the early 2000s.
Chicago police said that all of the protesters at the encampment "voluntarily left" the area when police arrived early Thursday.
"There were no confrontations and there was no resistance," Jon Hein, chief of patrol for the Chicago Police Department, said at a news briefing. "As we approached, all the subjects voluntarily left the area."
Hein said, however, that two people, a male and female in their 20s, were arrested outside the encampment "for obstruction of traffic."
The university posted on its website examples of over 1,000 registered complaints about the protest encampment, including pictures of antisemitic stickers and posters, damage to university property and testimony from students.
"My son and I watched a group of five masked men carrying Paleostinian flags push a Jewish man to the ground and then steal his Israeli flag. I was called a baby killer, a murderer, a genocide supporter. My friends had paint thrown on them, were pushed and verbally assaulted," one student testimony from DePaul read.
Police also found knives and a pellet gun while dismantling the tents, according to the university.
After clearing out the encampment at DePaul University, Chicago police found multiple knives and a pellet gun.
The move to clear the campus came less than a week after the school’s president said public safety was at risk.
The university on Saturday said it had reached an "impasse" with the school’s protesters, leaving the future of their encampment on the Chicago campus unclear. Most of DePaul’s commencement ceremonies will be held the June 15-16 weekend.
In a statement then, DePaul President Robert Manuel and Provost Salma Ghanem said they believe that students intended to protest peacefully, but "the responses to the encampment have inadvertently created public safety issues that put our community at risk."
Efforts to resolve the differences with DePaul Divestment Coalition over the past 17 days were unsuccessful, Manuel said in a statement sent to students, faculty and staff Thursday morning.
"Our Office of Public Safety and Chicago Police are now disassembling the encampment," he said. "Every person currently in the encampment will be given the opportunity to leave peacefully and without being arrested."
He said that since the encampment began, "the situation has steadily escalated with physical altercations, credible threats of violence from people not associated with our community."
Tensions at DePaul flared the previous weekend when counter protesters showed up to the campus in the city’s Lincoln Park neighborhood and prompted Chicago police to intervene.
The student-led DePaul Divestment Coalition, which is calling on the university to divest from Israel, set up the encampment April 30. The group alleged university officials walked away from talks and tried to force students into signing an agreement, according to a student statement late Saturday.
"I don’t want my tuition money to be invested in my family’s suffering," Henna Ayesh, a Paleostinian student at DePaul and Coalition member, said in the statement.
DePaul is on the city’s North Side. Last week, police removed a similar encampment at the University of Chicago on the city’s South Side.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named has recorded at least 79 incidents since April 18 where arrests were made at campus protests across the US. More than 2,900 people have been arrested on the campuses of 60 colleges and universities. The figures are based on AP reporting and statements from universities and law enforcement agencies.
[IsraelTimes] Far-left staffers for Democratic members of Congress are holding a protest on Capitol Hill urging US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. ‘This Is A Man That Does Not Seem Demented’... to "stop funding Israel’s war against Paleostinian civilians."
Roughly two dozen staffers are participating, many wearing masks to hide their identities. Cowards
From photos of the event posted online, there appear to be nearly as many news hounds covering the protest as demonstrators.
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Need any more proof... that the O'Biden Admin and DC is loaded with genocidal National Socialists seeking to accomplish typicals goals and agenda items?
[IsraelTimes] Demonstrators chain themselves together, accuse search giant and Israel of using Project Nimbus to commit genocide in Gaza
Hundreds of pro-Paleostinian and anti-Israel protesters demonstrated against Google’s ties to Israel and the IDF at the tech company’s annual developer conference in Mountain View on Tuesday.
The protesters chained themselves together near the entrance to the conference, forcing attendees to be redirected to a different entrance, and carried a large banner reading "Google stop fueling genocide."
A particular point of contention for the demonstrators was Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion deal between the Israeli government and Amazon and Google to provide AI and cloud services that are also used by the IDF.
The project enables Israeli cabinet ministries and other entities to transfer servers and services into cloud data centers provided locally.
"What you will not be hearing from today’s speakers is that right now, as I stand here before you, the state of Israel is using Google technology to execute history’s first AI-powered genocide," one of the protesters was quoted as saying by The Guardian.
The protesters, among whom were former and current Google employees, contended that the system is being lethally deployed in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an 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 — an allegation Google refutes and which the protesters have provided no evidence for.
"We are here to say that we cannot stand by while this company fuels this genocide and profits off of it," former Google employee Ariel Koren told The Guardian at the protest.
As an ex-employee, you have no standing to stand by. You are not part of the Google we.
”[Google] not only creates the infrastructure for the Israeli military to scale out their crimes against humanity, but these tools are being tested and trained in Paleostine to be exported out to militaries around the world, who can then commit the same types of violence," she said.
Koren claimed she was fired from Google for opposing Project Nimbus.
Last month, Google announced that it had fired 28 employees for staging "disruptive" sit-in protests at the company’s offices in New York and Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, to demonstrate against Project Nimbus.
The No Tech For Apartheid protests group claimed over 20 more employees were fired a week later but did not give a specific number.
[FoxNews] Two foreign nationals are in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody after an alleged attempt to breach a Marine Corps base this month, officials confirmed Thursday.
The incident happened May 3 at Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia. A spokesperson for the base said two people in a box truck were stopped at a gate.
The driver allegedly told military coppers they were making a delivery to the post office and worked for a company subcontracted by Amazon.
Because they had no affiliation to the base and no approved credentials, they were directed to a holding area for vetting.
"It was at that time, one of the military coppers noticed the driver, ignoring the direct instructions of the officers, continued to move the vehicle past the holding area and attempted to access Marine Corps Base Quantico," spokesperson Capt. Michael Curtis said in a statement.
"Due to the swift response and execution of their duties, the officers were able to deploy the vehicle denial barriers, prevent any further access to Marine Corps Base Quantico and detain the individuals who were eventually turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody."
No injuries were reported, and officers did not report any weapons. The alleged breach was first reported by the Potomac Local News.
On Thursday, Fox News asked Acting ICE Director Patrick Lechleitner about the case, and he said he was familiar with the case and that the two nationals are in removal proceedings.
ICE sources confirmed to Fox News that both suspects are Jordanian nationals. Lechleitner was asked if he could confirm reports at least one of them was on the terror watchlist and if they were in the country illegally.
"I can't confirm anything like that right now," he said.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked at a briefing about the incident, and she confirmed the two were in ICE custody.
"So, I'm going to be really mindful, these two Jordanians that you're speaking of remain in ICE custody, and given that it is an active law enforcement matter ... I would have to refer you to ICE," she said.
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"Multiple sources have stated at least one individual had recently crossed the border and entered the U.S.. At least one is reportedly on the FBI’s Terrorism Watch List."
[NYPost] Israel Defense Forces have recovered the bodies of three Israeli hostages in Gaza including Shani Louk, who became an international symbol of Hamas’ savagery after images showed her being paraded around half-naked in the back of a pickup truck during the Oct. 7 attacks.
IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari announced Friday that they recovered Louk, 22, and two additional victims of the music festival massacre, Amit Buskila, 28, and Itzik Gelernter, 58, during the Rafah operation
“Shani Louk, Amit Buskila and Yitzhak Gelernter were kidnapped and murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7 from the Nova Music Festival,” the IDF said in a statement.
“Overnight, our troops recovered their bodies and brought them back home to Israel. We will continue operating to bring all of our hostages.”
More than 360 Israeli revelers were murdered by militants at the Nova festival, which became a key target in the terror group’s unprovoked surprise attack on the Jewish home state.
Louk was one of around 40 Israeli hostages seized during the bloody assault on the music festival. Her family announced in late October that she had died at the hands of Hamas, Israel’s President Isaac Herzog later revealing to a German newspaper she had been beheaded.
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[Jpost] One soldier was wounded and is in serious condition after an encounter with terrorists in Jabalya, in the northern Gaza Strip, the military announced on Friday.
This comes after the IDF reported ramping up operations in Jabalya and Rafah, intensifying operational control, and striking terror targets.
Israel Air Force fighter jets struck weapons facilities and eliminated terrorists who launched mortar shells at IDF troops.
The IAF struck several military structures in Gaza, as well as terror cells, anti-tank positions, and additional terrorist infrastructure.
ELIMINATING TERRORISTS EN MASSE
In continued operations in the Gaza Strip, the 7th Brigade successfully eliminated more than 60 terrorists over the previous days in Jabalya, leading to continued fighting in the city center, the IDF added.
The groups of terrorists were eliminated both via ground operations and airstrikes. Meanwhile, firefights continued throughout the city.
The 101st battalion uncovered a weapons warehouse that hosted dozens of long-range rockets. They also uncovered rocket parts, explosives, and other weapons.
The warehouse was found just 10 meters away from a shelter complex, the IDF noted. Numerous terrorists were hiding in the complex, and the IDF subsequently arrested at least 20.
[IsraelTimes] Sgt. Maj. (res.) Ran Yavetz sixth soldier to be killed in tragic mistake in two days, after Jabaliya friendly fire incident; primed rocket launchers uncovered in southern Gaza city.
A military reservist was killed in an "operational accident" on the border with 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 an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said Thursday, a day after five soldiers were killed due to a case of mistaken identity.
Sgt. Maj. (res.) Ran Yavetz, 39, was killed in a blast caused by Israeli munitions in a military zone near the Black Arrow memorial site, hundreds of meters inside Israel.
Yavetz, from Modiin, had served with the Bislamach Brigade’s 6828th Battalion.
Four other soldiers were lightly injured in the accident, which was under further investigation, the army said.
On Thursday morning, the IDF announced that five Israeli soldiers were killed and another seven maimed, including three seriously, in a friendly fire incident in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya the night before.
The deaths brought the toll of slain troops in the IDF ground offensive against Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... in Gaza and in operations on the border to 279. A civilian Defense Ministry contractor has also been killed in Gaza.
At least 50 of the fatalities have been due to friendly fire and other accidents, according to IDF data. The army has assessed that myriad reasons have led to the deadly accidents, including communication issues between forces, and soldiers being exhausted and not paying attention to regulations.
Tanks continued to push into the heart of Jabaliya in northern Gaza on Thursday, facing anti-tank rockets and mortar bombs from Hamas fighters concentrated, Paleostinians reported.
Israel says it has eliminated many button men in Jabaliya but had no new comment on developments there on Thursday.
In Rafah, where residents reported heavy Israeli bombardments, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced that more troops would be deployed in Gaza’s southernmost city, the focus of intense international consternation.
"This operation will continue with additional forces that will enter [the area]. Several tunnels in the area have been destroyed by our forces and more tunnels will be destroyed soon," Gallant said in remarks provided by his office.
Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri ...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... responded that the Paleostinian terror group would defend its people "by all means."
Israel says four of Hamas’s six remaining battalions are now in Rafah along with hostages kidnapped during the terror group’s October 7 massacre, but it faces international pressure not to invade the city, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Paleostinian civilians are sheltering amid the ongoing war. Two more Hamas battalions remain in central Gaza, in the Nuseirat and Deir al-Balah camps.
The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... says that over 600,000 Gazooks have evacuated the city since the IDF began operations there last week by taking over the Paleostinian side of the Rafah Border Crossing.
South Africa on Thursday asked the International Court of Justice to halt the IDF’s military campaign in Rafah — and in all of Gaza — claiming that Israel has genocidal intent against Paleostinians.
Citing comments by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich who was quoted by Haaretz at the end of April as saying, "There are no half-measures. Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nusseirat — total annihilation," as evidence of Israeli genocidal intent, Attorney Tembeka Ngcukaitobi also played a video of IDF soldiers before entering the southern Gazook city praying and then singing, "We will dismantle Rafah."
South Africa told the top UN court that the Rafah offensive was "part of the endgame in which Gaza is utterly destroyed." Israel has denied allegations of genocide in Gaza and said it had complied with an earlier court order to step up aid. Israel will respond to South Africa at Friday’s hearing.
The IDF began sending troops into Rafah on May 7, in what it has described as a pinpoint operation, with soldiers currently holding a relatively small area southeast of the city.
The IDF said that troops of the 414th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit located several primed rocket launchers with long-range projectiles Thursday.
The launchers, some of which were used in attacks on Israeli cities in recent months, were located and demolished using drones, the military said.
In a different area of Rafah, the IDF said troops located another rocket launching site with dozens of launchers, before it was also demolished. This site had also been used in recent attacks on Israeli cities, including last week’s barrage on Beersheba, according to the military.
The military said its 98th Division pushed into the Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip overnight, killing many gunmen amid the fighting.
The IDF said the division’s 7th and 460th armored brigades battled “dozens of armed squads and eliminated a large number of terrorists” over the past day.
In the same area, a drone strike killed a terror cell responsible for rocket fire on the southern city of Sderot on Tuesday, the military said.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Tuesday that troops are now operating in areas of Jabaliya that the IDF previously did not reach in the initial ground offensive in northern Gaza. More than 80 gunmen have been killed in the operation that started on Sunday.
On Wednesday morning, several rockets were fired from Jabaliya at Sderot. Some of the rockets were downed by the Iron Dome air defense system, while at least one struck an unoccupied building, authorities said. There were no injuries.
The rate of rocket fire on southern towns has steadily increased in recent days as the IDF was carrying out new operations against Hamas.
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Also in the past day, some 80 sites used by terror groups, including buildings, weapon depots, rocket launchers, observation posts, and other infrastructure, were struck by the Air Force, the military said.
The IDF also confirmed Wednesday morning that troops of the Nahal Brigade withdrew from Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood after six days, to prepare for “additional offensive operations.”
The IDF reentered Zeitoun last Thursday for the third time in the ongoing war after identifying Hamas regrouping there.
Reservists of the Carmeli Brigade continued to operate in Zeitoun, the IDF added, contradicting media reports claiming that the six-day operation there had ended.
On Tuesday night, Hagari said troops had killed more than 150 gunmen and destroyed some 80 sites used by terror groups in the ongoing Zeitoun operation.
[An Nahar] Hezbollah said it launched on Thursday "more than 60" rockets at Israeli military positions in retaliation for overnight air strikes.
Hezbollah fighters "launched a missile attack with more than 60 Katyusha rockets" on several Israeli military positions including in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, the group said in a statement.
The strikes were "in response to the Israeli enemy's attacks last night on the Bekaa region" in eastern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. 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? It is the 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. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... 's Baalbek area, the group added.
Israeli warplanes meanwhile raided Wadi Slouki at the outskirts of the southern border town of Houla, al-Rihan, Sujod, and Aita al-Shaab, while Israeli artillery shelled Rachaya al-Foukhar and al-Khiam including with white phosphorus bombs. Shells also hit the Marjayoun plain, al-Owaidah hills and Yarin, injuring two herders in Marjayoun.
The Israeli army later said it had identified "approximately 40 launches" from Lebanon "towards the Golan Heights", causing "no injuries".
It added that Israeli forces struck the sources of the fire.
The army reported several more attacks from Lebanon on northern Israel, to which it said it had also responded with strikes. Hezbollah said it targeted the Zar'it barracks, surveillance equipment in the Jal al-Alam, Mount Adir, and Ramia posts, and a group of soldiers in Metula.
Earlier Thursday, Lebanese state-run media reported an overnight Israeli air raid on the Baalbek area, where Hezbollah holds sway, hours after the group launched an attack deep into Israeli territory.
"The outskirts of the eastern Lebanon mountain range, at midnight (2100 GMT Wednesday), was subjected to five enemy raids," Lebanon's official National News Agency (NNA) said.
The Israeli strikes "slightly injured a citizen" and caused fires, the NNA added.
A source close to Hezbollah told AFP that one of the strikes "hit a Hezbollah military camp".
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[An Nahar] Lebanese state-run media said an Israeli strike on a car in the country's south on Thursday killed two people, with Hezbollah-affiliated rescuers saying at least one of them was a group member.
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"Two people were martyred in the raid that targeted a car on the Ramadiyeh-Qana road," the official National News agency (NNA) said, after earlier reporting a dronezap.
A rescuer from the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health committee said an Israeli strike on a car in Qana had killed two young men, including a member of the Iran-backed movement.
Hezbollah earlier said it had launched "more than 60" rockets at Israeli military positions in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights in retaliation for overnight strikes that killed a Hezbollah member who Israel said was a field commander.
The strikes were "in response to the Israeli enemy's attacks last night on the Bekaa region" in eastern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. 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? It is the 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. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... 's Baalbek area, it said in a statement.
The Israeli army later said it had identified about "40 launches" from Lebanon towards the Golan Heights that caused no injuries before striking back at the sources of the fire.
It reported several more attacks from Lebanon on northern Israel, to which it had also responded with strikes.
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Earlier, NNA had reported a midnight Israeli raid on the Baalbek area, where Hezbollah holds sway, hours after the group launched an attack deep into Israeli territory.
"The outskirts of the eastern Lebanon mountain range... was subjected to five enemy raids," the agency said, adding that they maimed a Lebanese citizen and caused fires.
A source close to Hezbollah told AFP one of the strikes "hit a Hezbollah military camp".
An Israeli army front man told AFP: "I can confirm that an air strike was indeed conducted deep in Lebanon against a terror target related to Hezbollah's precision missile project".
The area of Baalbek in the Bekaa valley is a Hezbollah bastion, bordering Syria.
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