The agent said that border patrol has been defunded and overwhelmed
Migrant numbers have exploded as organized crime has obtained more power
READ MORE: Chinese migrants using Mexican IDs supplied by Mexican drug cartels to aid passage to US
As previously reported by DailyMail.com, cartels have been recruiting American soldiers to smuggle migrants into the US in a worrying new trend. So far, two have been arrested for participating in the illegal people smuggling
Cartels are also believed to be providing Mexican IDs to Chinese nationals hoping to cross the border into the US. It is thought the IDs are being made and sold by cartels so that migrants travelling to the US from Asia and elsewhere can pass checks by Mexican police as they travel through the country. The documents are then destroyed or discarded by migrants as they cross the US border, making it harder for authorities to identify them and easing their path to asylum.
San Diego has seen more than double the amount of Chinese nationals cross its border in the first half of this fiscal year than in all of 2023.
Most fly into Tijuana before paying cartels up to $35,000 to get them to the US.
Migrant arrests in San Diego reached 8,989 for the week ending April 16, according to figures the agency posted on X. Meanwhile, Tucson — which previously had been the top region for crossings — had 7,500 arrests for the week ending April 19.
Recent data shows the migrant crisis is shifting west to border states like Arizona and California amid a crack down in Texas by Republican Governor Greg Abbott.
Mexican authorities have also tightened security on their side of the Texan border.
The volume of migrants arriving is overwhelming resources in San Diego, with officials reporting that up to 1,000 people a day are being released at city train and bus stops.
Crossings in the sector rose from 31,562 in February to 33,784 in March, although this total was down slightly from the 34,371 migrants who entered San Diego in December.
[FoxNews] U.S. Border Patrol agents came under fire while working on the southern border from gunmen operating inside Mexico, according to various officials.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed to Fox News that shots were fired from the Mexican side of the El Paso, Texas sector on Wednesday afternoon. The CBP said that agents were involved in a "use of force incident while responding to reports of shots fired near the border in the Ysleta Station area of responsibility in Texas." Sources confirmed that CBP agents returned fire.
The FBI later confirmed the shooting in a statement to Fox News, saying it happened "by the Ysleta USBP Station – Lopez Gate" and that their agents are investigating it as an "assault on federal agents."
"FBI El Paso was notified of the May 8th shooting that occurred by the Ysleta USBP Station – Lopez Gate. The FBI El Paso Violent Crime Task Force and the FBI Evidence Recovery Team were deployed to collect evidence at the crime scene.," the FBI said. "The FBI El Paso’s Violent Crime Task Force is working closely with the U.S. Custom and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility on this assault on a federal officer investigation. As this is an ongoing investigation, no further details may be given at this time."
CBP said that no agents were injured during the incident and that an investigation is underway.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Clashes erupted again on Friday between 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 army, backed by various armed movements, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State. The intense fighting, involving a wide range of weaponry, resulted in numerous civilian deaths and injuries.
A senior commander in the joint forces told Sudan Tribune that their troops launched a surprise attack on RSF positions in al-Manhal School, al-Borsa, and the al-Kahraba neighbourhood. "We inflicted heavy losses on their personnel and military vehicles, forcing them to retreat," he said.
The attack was initiated after receiving intelligence indicating that the RSF had completed preparations to attack El Fasher from the east, bolstered by thousands of fighters and militias from Arab tribes across Darfur.
In contrast, a field commander from the RSF claimed their forces managed to deliver a significant defeat to the army and its allied armed movements.
By Friday evening, the joint forces reported that the RSF had suffered severe losses in both equipment and personnel.
The joint forces’ statement noted that the battles raged for ten hours, during which they managed to capture several vehicles and forced the RSF to flee.
Eyewitnesses described intense ground festivities in the neighbourhoods of al-Safa, al-Jeel, and Factories, where heavy weapons were used, resulting in multiple casualties. Victims were transported to al-Fasher Southern Hospital.
Residents accused the RSF of bombing populated neighbourhoods in the west of the city, causing significant damage to homes and targeting al-Fasher Children’s Hospital with artillery shells, prompting patients to flee the facility.
Pro-army social media pages shared videos showing citizens celebrating with army soldiers, displaying three vehicles seized in the day’s battles.
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[ShabelleMedia] At least 107 migrants colonists, including women and kiddies, have been released from a town in southeastern Libya, according to a front man for the Libyan army.
Walid Alorafi, the front man for the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Benghazi, said that the migrants colonists were held for seven months as they tried to go to Europe.
The migrants colonists came from different countries in sub-Saharan Africa, but most of them came from Somalia according to Alorafi.
"Last night we attacked a place where they were hiding in the center of Kufra city, and we found illegal migrants colonists including women, children, and old men, some of whom showed signs of torture and gunshots," said Alorafi.
The migrants colonists were all handed over to the IOM’s illegal migration agency.
The CID released videos showing their forces destroying the house where the migrants colonists were staying. Among the other videos, shots were fired at migrants colonists whose bodies show signs of torture.
Some of the migrants colonists were seen being taken away in an ambulance with aid workers. The health condition of some migrants colonists is very poor, according to Alorafi.
Kufra is approximately 1,712 kilometers (1,064 miles) from the capital Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Libya has become a gateway for migrants colonists fleeing conflict and poverty to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... via the dangerous desert-Mediterranean route after the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him...> by a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -backed uprising.
[IsraelTimes] Police in riot gear also clear out encampments at Penn and University of Arizona; MIT president says encampment ’no longer safely sustainable’
Police early Friday dismantled a pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel tent encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and moved to clear protesters from the University of Pennsylvania’s campus in Philadelphia, just hours after police tear-gassed protesters and took down an encampment at the University of Arizona.
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, video showed police roaming through the MIT encampment and organizers said about 10 students were tossed into the calaboose. Police in riot gear arrived around 4 a.m., encircled the camp and gave protesters about 15 minutes to leave. A crowd outside the camp began gathering and chanting pro-Paleostinian slogans but was dispersed by 6 a.m.
At the University of Arizona, campus police in riot gear fired tear gas late Thursday at protesters before tearing down an encampment that included wood and plastic barriers on campus. In a statement, the University of Arizona said it made the decision because the encampment violated school policy.
"A structure made from wooden pallets and other debris was erected on campus property after 5 p.m. in violation of the policy," the school said in a statement. "University officials issued warnings to remove the encampment and disperse. The warnings were ignored."
The school also said that police vehicles were spiked, and rocks and water bottles thrown at officers and university staff.
In Philadelphia early Friday, police detained people who were at an encampment that has been in place at the University of Pennsylvania’s campus for more than two weeks. Officers moved in after giving pro-Paleostinian protesters a warning to leave campus or face possible arrest.
Tensions have ratcheted up in standoffs with protesters on campuses across the United States and increasingly in Europe. Some colleges cracked down immediately, while others have tolerated the demonstrations. Some have begun to lose patience and call in the police over concerns about disruptions to campus life and safety.
The pro-Paleostinian protest movement began nearly three weeks ago at Columbia University in New York City. It has since swept college campuses nationwide, with more than 2,500 people arrested.
The move at MIT comes several days after police first attempted to clear the encampment only to see protesters storm past barriers and restore the encampment, which includes about a dozen tents in the heart of the campus in Cambridge.
Before removing the encampment, MIT earlier in the week had started suspending dozens of students involved in the encampment, meaning they wouldn’t be able to take part in academic activities or commencement.
Protesters insisted the move would not stop them from demanding that MIT end all ties to the Israeli military.
"This is only going to make us stronger. They can’t arrest the movement," Quinn Perian, an undergraduate student at MIT and organizer for MIT Jews for Ceasefire, said. "We are going to continue and won’t back down until MIT agrees to cut ties with the Israeli military. MIT would rather arrest and suspend some students than they would end their complicity with the genocide going on 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 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... The encampment had been up for at least two weeks and especially angered Jewish students, who have held counter-protests nearby. They covered a lawn with small Israeli flags and put up posters of some of the people kidnapped by Lions of Islam during the October 7 attack in which some 1,200 people were killed, mostly civilians, and 252 were kidnapped.
MIT President Sally Kornbluth, working to strike a balance between recognizing the suffering in Gaza with concerns about the "safety of our community," warned Monday the encampment would have to be removed.
"This prolonged use of MIT property as a venue for protest, without permission, especially on an issue with such sharp disagreement, is no longer safely sustainable," she wrote to the MIT community.
Anti-Israel protesters have contested that their movement, which calls for universities to disclose investments in Israeli companies and divest from them, is peaceful and not antisemitic. Many Jewish students, however, have reported being harassed, and chants calling for the elimination of Israel are often heard.
[IsraelTimes] Officials say recent intel placed the Hamas leader in underground tunnels around Khan Younis, as the accused October 7 mastermind continues to elude Israeli forces in Gaza
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is not hiding in Rafah, two officials familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel on Friday, as the Israel Defense Forces moves to expand its operations 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 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... ’s southernmost city.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has elevated a potential IDF operation in Rafah to the top of his public agenda, with the targeting of Hamas’s leadership believed to still be a major Israeli war aim as well.
The IDF has had some success on this front, killing Hamas military wing deputy commander Marwan Issa — considered the terror group’s No. 3 leader in Gaza — along with other senior commanders in recent months. But Sinwar and his deputy — military wing chief Mohammed Deif — have remained elusive, despite repeated claims by Israeli officials that the IDF was closing in on them.
The two officials speaking to The Times of Israel were unable to say with certainty where Sinwar is currently located, but they cited recent intelligence assessments that placed the Hamas leader in underground tunnels in the Khan Younis area, some five miles north of Rafah.
A third official — an Israeli one — asserted that Sinwar is still in Gaza.
Israel has made eliminating Sinwar a key element of its goal to destroy Hamas. In February, the IDF released footage of what it said was Sinwar walking through a tunnel with several family members, the first time he was apparently spotted since going into hiding before the devastating October 7 onslaught he’s accused of orchestrating, triggering the ongoing war in Gaza.
IDF ground forces began operating in Rafah on Monday, launching a targeted operation in the eastern part of the city aimed at taking over the Gaza side of the border crossing with Egypt. The security cabinet voted Thursday to approve a measured expansion of the Rafah operation in what is aimed at remaining within the scope of what Washington is willing to accept.
US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. ’This Is A Man ThatDoes Not Seem Demented’... said he would stop sending certain offensive weapons to the IDF if Israel went forward with a major ground offensive in the population centers of the city where over one million Paleostinians are sheltering. He already withheld a shipment of high payload bombs last week amid fears they’d be used in Rafah.
Netanyahu has pledged to launch a major offensive in Rafah for months, arguing that the operation is essential for defeating Hamas, which has four of its remaining six active battalions located in the city.
But one of the officials speaking to The Times of Israel said many Hamas fighters in Rafah have fled northward as Israeli threats of an invasion intensified in recent weeks.
While Israel says 18 of Hamas’s 24 battalions have been dismantled, the terror group’s fighters have managed to regroup and return to areas previously cleared by the IDF.
The IDF was operating in the Gaza City neighborhood of Zeitoun this week for the third time since the war’s outbreak, with security officials warning that the IDF would be forced to continue playing this game of cat and mouse with Hamas until the Israeli government advances a viable alternative to Hamas rule.
While much of the security establishment would like to see the Paleostinian Authority — or at least Paleostinians linked to the PA — fill the vacuums that the IDF is briefly creating through its operations throughout the Strip, Netanyahu has rejected the idea outright, as his far-right allies have pushed for Israel to permanently occupy the Strip and re-establish settlements there.
Absent a diplomatic strategy to compliment the military operations, many of the IDF’s achievements on the ground have been short-lived, the Israeli official told The Times of Israel.
[GEO.TV] Heavy festivities took place between Paleostinian fighters and Israel’s military in the east of Rafah after the occupational forces launched operations in multiple areas, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.
A video clip doing rounds on social media platforms show an intimidated Paleostinian family at a residence amid sounds of heavy machine-gun fire and explosions in what is being described as a "night of fire".
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[GEO.TV] Israeli tanks captured the main road dividing the eastern and western halves of Rafah on Friday, effectively encircling the entire eastern side of the city in the southern 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.
Residents described almost constant explosions and gunfire east and northeast of the city on Friday, with intense fighting between Israeli forces and fighters from Hamas and 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... Hamas said it ambushed Israeli tanks near a mosque in the east of the city, a sign the Israelis had penetrated several kilometres from the east to the outskirts of the built-up area.
Israel has ordered civilians out of the eastern half of Rafah, forcing tens of thousands of people to seek shelter outside the city, previously the last refuge of more than a million who fled other parts of the enclave during the war.
Israel says it cannot win the war without assaulting Rafah to root out thousands of Hamas fighters it believes are sheltering there. Hamas says it will fight to defend it. Aid agencies say the battle puts hundreds of thousands of already displaced civilians in harm's way.
"It is not safe, all of Rafah isn't safe as tank shells landed everywhere since yesterday," Abu Hassan, 50, a resident of Tel al-Sultan west of Rafah told Rooters via a chat app.
"I am trying to leave but I can't afford 2,000 shekels to buy a tent for my family," he said. "There is an increased movement of people out of Rafah even from the western areas, though they were not designated as red zones by the occupation.
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It's essential to secure the border with Egypt because that's where Hamas gets most of its weapons - if you believe the story of qassams from water pipes, there is place for you in the The Zambian Space Programme
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IMO, the solution is for israel to incorporate gaza into israel. But what could they do about the muslims living there? islam is not a civilized religion and believers in sharia should not be citizens of any civilized country. what 2 do?
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Boom-boom time.
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what 2 do?
Send them to the protein banks. Soylent Green(tm) is Gazans!
Two peoples cannot live peacefully side by side when one group is bound by religion and culture to exterminate the other. It is just that simple. As Robert Frost said, "Defensible borders make good neighbors".
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"The pet food market in the US is estimated at around 50 billion USD", he said apropos of nothing in particular. There is always demand for high-protein animal feed and water-packed cat food in fancy cans.
[IsraelTimes] Security cabinet said to approve measured expansion of op in southern part of Strip, risking clash with Biden; dozens of gunmen killed in fighting, tunnels found
Four Israeli soldiers were killed and several maimed as fierce battles raged across 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 on Friday, while Hamas fired rockets at the southern city of Beersheba for the first time since December, lightly injuring a woman.
Israeli tanks reportedly advanced on a main road dividing the eastern and western halves of southern Gaza’s Rafah on Friday, amid heavy festivities taking place in the area, as well as in Gaza City in the north of the Strip.
The four soldiers were killed in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood. According to an initial IDF probe, they were hit by an bomb or devices in an alleyway.
The troops had been raiding a school complex where the military had indications of Hamas activity. Weaponry and at least one tunnel were discovered in the area of the school.
The IDF has returned several times to the Zeitun neighborhood since the war’s outbreak, as Hamas has managed to regroup in areas previously cleared by the army.
The soldiers were identified as Sgt. Itay Livny, 19, from Ramat Hasharon; Sgt. Yosef Dassa, 19, from Kiryat Bialik; Sgt. Ermiyas Mekuriyaw, 19, from Beersheba and Sgt. Daniel Levy, 19, from Kiryat Motzkin. All four were from the Nahal Brigade’s 931st Battalion.
Another officer and soldier of the 931st Battalion were seriously maimed in the same incident.
Their deaths bring the toll of slain troops in the IDF’s ground offensive in Gaza and amid operations on the border to 271.
Separately, another two soldiers of the 401st Armored Brigade’s 9th Battalion were seriously maimed by RPG fire on a tank in the Rafah area of southern Gaza.
When the Israel Defense Forces launched its operation in eastern Rafah late Monday, it said troops had captured part of the Salah a-Din road, along with the Rafah Crossing to Egypt.
According to a report by Rooters, it appeared that tanks had pushed further along the road on Friday, although still within a zone that the IDF ordered to be evacuated.
Residents described almost constant explosions and gunfire east and northeast of the city, with intense fighting between Israeli forces and operatives of the Hamas and 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... terror groups.
Hamas claimed to have ambushed Israeli tanks near a mosque in the east of the city, a sign the IDF had penetrated several kilometers from the east to the outskirts of the built-up area of the city.
The Israeli military said Friday that it had killed dozens of button men as it continued to operate in eastern Rafah, as well as in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood.
Israel ordered civilians out of the eastern outskirts of Rafah earlier this week. The military has estimated that around 150,000 Paleostinians in the east Rafah area have evacuated already.
Around a million more Paleostinians, who fled other parts of the enclave during the war, remain in the city itself, and they have not been called to evacuate yet as the operation remains limited in scope amid hostage negotiations with Hamas.
Still, the security cabinet voted on Thursday night to approve a "measured" expansion of the IDF’s operation in Rafah, Hebrew media reported
The expansion was deemed as measured in what Israel hopes will not cross the line into what the United States deems as a "major operation."
US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... warned earlier this week that he would halt certain offensive weapons shipments to Israel if it entered into the population centers of Rafah due to concerns over the one million-plus civilians sheltering there.
The Axios news site cited two sources who say the expansion will be limited enough so as to not upset the Biden administration, while a third source warned the moves could be interpreted by the US as a step too far.
The security cabinet also voted to instruct Israel’s hostage negotiating team to continue its efforts to try and reach a hostage deal by putting together a new proposal in the hopes of reaching a breakthrough, Axios reported. Far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich voted against the decision but were outnumbered.
In east Rafah, troops of the Givati Brigade located several tunnel shafts and killed dozens of button men, and the 401st Armored Brigade killed several more button men in close-quarters combat and by calling in Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the area of the Rafah Crossing with Egypt, the IDF said Friday.
The military also said the Air Force and 215th Artillery Regiment carried out several strikes in Rafah over the past day, targeting sites used by Hamas to launch rockets and mortars at troops and at Israel.
ROCKETS ON BEERSHEBA
Also Friday, five rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip at the southern city of Beersheba, according to the IDF. One was intercepted by the Iron Dome while the other four hit open areas, it said.
A 37-year-old woman was lightly maimed by shrapnel, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said, adding that the woman was taken to Soroka Hospital for treatment.
The shrapnel also caused some damage to a city park. It was not immediately clear if it was caused by a direct impact or a large fragment that fell and caused the damage.
Hours later, a second barrage nine rockets were launched from Rafah Beersheba. The IDF said all nine rockets struck open area. Hamas claimed the second barrage too.
The last time rockets were fired from at Beersheba, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Gaza, was in December.
Several mortars and rockets were also launched from the Rafah area at the southern border communities of Sufa, Kerem Shalom and Nir Yitzhak and at troops in Gaza on Friday.
Some of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome, as sirens sounded in the border towns.
Meanwhile, Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.
No, he said. Do you?... in Zeitoun, where the IDF launched a pinpoint operation early Thursday, the military said fighter jets struck several button men and Hamas sites, including a booby-trapped building.
The IDF reported that in recent days, Nahal troops killed several button men, including by calling in airstrikes, as well as captured weapons and intelligence materials in the Zeitoun area.
In central Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor, the IDF said reservists of the Yiftah Brigade spotted a cell of button men leaving a known weapons depot and moving toward the forces, before calling in an airstrike against them. The weapons depot and another operative in the area were targeted in separate strikes, the military said.
More than 40 more targets, including tunnels, anti-tank missile launch positions, buildings, observation posts and other infrastructure were struck by the Air Force in other areas of Gaza, the IDF adds.
The war in Gaza erupted after Hamas’s October 7 attacks, which saw some 3,000 forces of Evil burst across the border into Israel by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 252 hostages, mostly civilians, many amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
The ensuing war has killed over 34,800 Paleostinians, according to Gaza health officials, though data issued by the Hamas-run authorities cannot be independently verified, and is believed to include both civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza, including as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires.
Israel has said it has killed some 15,000 terror operatives in Gaza,
…note that the number has increased, dear Reader…
in addition to some 1,000 forces of Evil inside Israel on October 7, while 267 soldiers have been killed during the ground offensive against Hamas and amid operations along the Gaza border.
Sadly, that number went up to 271 later in the day — the soil of liberty being watered.
[IsraelTimes] Head of UN agency for Palestinian refugees says facility to remain closed until ’proper security’ restored, accusing armed Israeli extremists of threatening and harassing staff.
The main United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... aid agency for Paleostinians temporarily closed its headquarters in East Jerusalem after Israeli locals set fire to areas at the edge of the sprawling compound, the agency said Thursday. That does send a message.
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNWRA, said in a post on the social media platform X that he had decided to close the compound until "proper security" was restored.
He said Thursday’s incident was the second in less than a week.
"This is an outrageous development. Once again, the lives of UN staff were at a serious risk," he said.
Lazzarini described how "a crowd accompanied by gunnies were witnessed outside the compound chanting ’Burn down the United Nations’."
At the time, UNRWA and staff from other UN agencies were in the compound, which contains fuel stations for a fleet of UN cars.
"While there were no casualties among our staff, the fire caused extensive damage to the outdoor areas," Lazzarini said, adding that UNRWA staff had put out the fire themselves.
In footage shared with Lazzarini’s post, smoke can be seen rising near buildings at the edge of the compound while the sound of chanting in Hebrew can be heard.
UNRWA, set up to deal with the Paleostinian refugees who fled or were forced from their homes during the 1948 war around the time of Israel’s creation, has long been a target of Israeli hostility. Calls for it to be shuttered have risen since the agency reported that around a dozen staffers had taken part in the October 7 atrocities, citing Israeli intelligence. The revelation, accompanied by Israeli claims that thousands more staffers have ties to terror groups, re-energized protests against the agency as donors pulled back funding.
An independent review group of UNRWA, led by French former foreign minister Catherine Colonna, found some "neutrality-related issues" but said Israel had yet to provide evidence for its allegation of widespread links to Hamas and other terror groups.
Lazzarini said Thursday’s attack came after two months of "Israeli faceless myrmidons staging protests outside the UNRWA compound," adding that one protest earlier this week "became violent mostly peaceful when demonstrators threw stones at UN staff and at the buildings of the compound."
"Our compound has been seriously vandalised and damaged. On several occasions, Israeli faceless myrmidons threatened our staff with guns," he charged.
"It is the responsibility of the State of Israel as an occupying power to ensure that United Nations personnel and facilities are protected at all times," he added.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli police.
The Paleostinian Authority condemned the arson attack and urged the international community to take "strict measures" against Israeli "militias."
Jordan also decried the attack, calling for measures to force Israel to "assume its responsibility as the occupying power in Jerusalem" and put an end to the harassment, according to the official news agency Petra.
Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... ’s foreign ministry slammed the "systematic Israeli targeting of UNRWA," maintaining it aimed "to liquidate it and deprive millions of Paleostinians of its necessary services".
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... also condemned the attack.
Created in 1949, the agency employs around 30,000 people in the Paleostinian territories, Jordan, 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... and Syria. It has coordinated nearly all aid to Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... during Israel’s war on Hamas.
[An Nahar] Two civilians, a first responder from Amal's Risala rescue group and a telecoms technician doing maintenance work, were killed Friday in an Israeli dronezap on the southern border town of Tayrharfa, as cross-border hostilities intensified.
A Risala Scout association rescuer and a technician from Power Tec, which undertakes maintenance work for private mobile service provider MTC Touch, were killed "as a result of the Israeli aggression on Tayrharfa", 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 National News Agency said.
Workers from MTC Touch and the Ogero telecom provider were carrying out "maintenance on the transmission poles", the NNA said, adding they had sought permission from the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, or UNIFIL.
The Risala Scout association affiliated with the Amal movement, which operates rescue teams in south Lebanon, said the rescuer was killed when his team went to a location that had come under Israeli bombardment.
"The second strike came quickly, and one of the young men was martyred," a source from the association told AFP.
A source within MTC Touch said the strike hit a team that had been doing maintenance work in Tayrharfa.
"We lost communications with them because the station was hit," the source told AFP, requesting anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
"There were people from our team and from another company that does maintenance work for us, and there were also paramedics," the source added.
Israeli jets and drones had targeted Yaroun and Tayr Harfa as Israeli artillery shelled the southern border towns of al-Khiam and Blida and the town of al-Odaisseh with phosphorus bombs.
Hezbollah for its part targeted Friday a group of soldiers in the al-Malkia post and surveillance equipment in Misgav Am in northern Israel.
Hezbollah began attacking Israel in support of ally Hamas a day after the Paleostinian krazed killer group's unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel that sparked war 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... Strip.
The group has stepped up its attacks in recent weeks, while Israel's military has struck deeper into Lebanese territory.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...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...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
