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IDF says it blew up Hamas tunnel that stretched hundreds of meters into Israel
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Illegal alien who had previously been deported at least 8 times, charged with murder in Ohio
[JustTheNews] Officers found a victim’s body just north of Cincinnati earlier this week in response to a 911 call.

An illegal alien who has been charged with murder in Ohio had previously been deported at least eight times, according to the Butler County Sheriff's Office.

Fermin Garcia-Gutierrez, 46, is currently being held in the Butler County Jail and has been charged with aggravated murder and using weapons while intoxicated, according to Fox News.

Officers found a victim’s body just north of Cincinnati earlier this week in response to a 911 call.

Garcia-Gutierrez is the suspect who is currently jailed on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer.

Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said during a press conference earlier this week that the suspect is a gang member and has been charged with 20 different crimes since 2001.

"That person would be alive today, and if you don’t think that it’s affecting you in Butler County, Ohio, we’re all border states; we’re all border counties. It’s here, and we could go on and on," Jones said during the press conference.

"Our border is broken, and these individuals are the cause of it," added Jones, as he pointed at photos of President Biden, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, according to the outlet.

"He actually doesn’t run Mexico, it’s the drug cartel," Jones said. "We’ve got to stop this border invasion, it’s killing us and its killing innocent people."
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/07/2024 07:21 || Comments || Link || [67 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


-Great Cultural Revolution
NYC to pay $17.5M for forcing Muslim women to remove hijabs for mugshot
[FoxNews] The women's lawyers likened removing the hijabs to being strip-searched.

New York City has agreed to pay $17.5 million in a class action lawsuit led by two Muslim women who say their religious rights were violated when police forced them to remove their hijabs for mugshots after they were arrested.

The preliminary financial settlement, which still needs to be approved by a district court judge, was filed on Friday in Manhattan federal court on Friday and more than 3,600 people are eligible for payouts under the deal.

The two women, Jamilla Clark and Arwa Aziz, initially filed the suit in 2018 after they were arrested for violating orders of protection that they called bogus. They were both arrested the year prior year in Manhattan and Brooklyn, respectively.

They said they felt shame and trauma after being forced to remove the head coverings which are worn by Muslim women in observance of the Islamic religion. Their lawyers likened removing the hijabs to being strip-searched.

"When they forced me to take off my hijab, I felt as if I were naked," Clark said in a statement provided by her lawyers. "I'm not sure if words can capture how exposed and violated I felt."

"I’m so proud today to have played a part in getting justice for thousands of New Yorkers."

Payouts will total about $13.1 million after legal fees and costs are deducted, and could increase if enough of the more than 3,600 eligible class members submit claims. Each recipient will be paid between $7,824 and $13,125.

Albert Fox Cahn, a lawyer for Clark and Aziz, said the settlement was a milestone for New Yorkers’ privacy and religious rights.

"The NYPD should never have stripped these religious New Yorkers of their head coverings and dignity," Cahn said, according to the New York Times.

He said the accord "sends a powerful message that the NYPD can't violate New Yorkers' First Amendment rights without paying a price."

In response to the lawsuit, New York's police department agreed in 2020 to let men and women wear head coverings during mugshots, so long as their faces could be seen.

"This settlement resulted in a positive reform for the NYPD," said Nicholas Paolucci, a spokesman for the city's law department. "The agreement carefully balances the department's respect for firmly held religious beliefs with the important law enforcement need to take arrest photos."

The suit follows a 2018 case where New York City was made pay out $180,000 to three Muslim women after they were also forced to take off their hijabs for mugshots.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [172 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  And they say "London has fallen."!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/07/2024 0:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Proof of the utter stupidity and cowardice that has engulfed portions of our judicial system. The $17.5 million is taxpayer money given away to glib shyster lawyers and their clients by gutless bureaucrats terrified of offending Muslims. Expect more of the same.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/07/2024 13:48 Comments || Top||

#3  I am surprised that NYC still arrests people.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/07/2024 16:13 Comments || Top||

#4  ^Try walking an NYC street with a MAGA hat.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/07/2024 16:20 Comments || Top||

#5  If the hijabs just somehow happen to catch on fire then the hihab wearers will willingly remove then themselves.

Do I have to do all the thinking around here?
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 04/07/2024 23:38 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Iftar with the participation of refugees from Palestine was held in Derbent
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Refugees from Palestine took part in an iftar in Derbent, which gathered more than 10 thousand people, organized by the head of the republic.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, a delegation from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the regional office of the Russian Red Cross visited Dagestan to check the conditions in which refugees from Palestine live, the Ombudsman of Dagestan reported.

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim lunar calendar, a month of fasting (as-saum), spiritual and moral purification, as well as strengthening faith and will. During Ramadan, Muslims must abstain from food and drink during daylight hours. During Ramadan, collective iftars (breaking the fast) are held every evening in the cathedral mosques of the North Caucasus, says the “Caucasian Knot” information about  Ramadan.

More than 10,000 Dagestanis attended iftar in Derbent on behalf of the head of the republic, the administration of the head of Dagestan announced today. Among those gathered were refugees from Palestine, who were invited to the holiday of breaking the fast by the head of the republic, Sergei Melikov, as indicated in a message on the administration’s telegram channel.

The publication is illustrated with photographs and videos in which Melikov stands surrounded by Palestinians. “There are no people in Dagestan today who are indifferent to the events in Gaza,” Melikov said. 

Melikov invited the ambassadors of Muslim countries who are visiting a group of refugees in Dagestan, as follows from a video posted on the Derbent News Telegram channel. “These are our guests from Palestine who came to stay with us, but cannot yet invite us to their place in Gaza,” he said.

Since the beginning of the aggravation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,  183 refugees from the Gaza Strip have arrived in Dagestan, the head of the government of the republic said. Earlier, authorities reported that 62 people received Russian passports. The head of the Republic's Ministry of Labor reported that more than 30 immigrants from Palestine are ready to work in Dagestan, mainly in the healthcare sector. 12 immigrants from Palestine asked to be enrolled in universities to receive free higher education in Dagestan.

The Ministry of Health and the Medical University of Dagestan  organized retraining courses for refugees from Palestine who decided to work in the republic’s healthcare system. The Insan Charitable Foundation has announced its readiness to pay for this training. Most of the Palestinian refugees who arrived in Dagestan are doctors by training, and the Ministry of Labor of the Republic offers jobs as shoemakers and manicurists to people without a specialty and wives of doctors.

The heads and high-ranking diplomats of the embassies of Bangladesh, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, Malaysia, Pakistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan are visiting Dagestan. This is a joint initiative of the Department of State Protocol of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the government of the republic, the department said in a statement on April 5.
Posted by: badanov || 04/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [66 views] Top|| File under:


Activists demand assurances for the safety of Muslims in Adigeni
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] Georgian activists blamed the country's authorities for the conflict in Adigeni between Muslims and local residents. The police are obliged to ensure the safety of Muslims, human rights activists pointed out.
I can imagine which ways the betting odds go…
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on April 5, residents of Adigeni came out to protest against Muslim meetings in a private house, and security forces were restraining them. The head of the agency for religious affairs said that the owner of the house, Yusuf Mikeladze, does not compromise. Mikeladze called the authorities' proposals unacceptable. Security forces did not allow protesters to approach Mikeladze’s house.

On March 8, dozens of residents of the village of Adigeni in southern Georgia held a protest against Muslims gathering for prayer. There is no mosque in the village, and Muslims gather for prayer on Fridays in the house of Yusuf Mikeladze, where there is a spiritual center. The former mufti of Georgia demanded that the country's authorities investigate the incident. The authorities and law enforcement agencies do not respond to violations of the rights of the Georgian Muslim community, which creates an atmosphere of impunity and  preconditions for renewed violence, human rights activists said. Local residents are unhappy that Muslims from other localities are coming to the village. According to Yusuf Mikeladze, who gathers fellow believers for prayer in his home, visitors do not create problems for the villagers. 
That’s how he would see it, certainly. Possibly it’s even true.
Nine non-governmental organizations today issued a joint statement regarding the events of April 5 in Adigeni. “Perhaps specific groups want provocation and tension between Muslims and Christians. Perhaps specific groups are content with this tension. However, the centuries-old history of tolerance, equality and justice of Georgia will not give anyone the opportunity for our peaceful coexistence to be disrupted in the current tense geopolitical situation,” - says a statement received by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Activists held the country's authorities responsible for their failure to defuse the conflict in Adigeni and called for effective steps to ensure equality and equality: to ensure freedom of religion; resolve conflict on the ground and restore trust between communities and guarantee peaceful, safe and just coexistence.

The authors of the statement also appealed to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to ensure a safe environment for Muslims to pray in Adigeni and prevent the recurrence of physical attacks and threats. In addition, ensure the initiation of a timely and effective investigation into the incident and the implementation of the necessary investigative actions.

Among the signatories of the statement are the Center for Social Justice, the Salam Platform, the Solidarity Platform, the Center for Civic Inclusion and Activism and others.

 The mayor of Adigeni, Gocha Kimadze, said on the Formula TV channel that parliament member, former head of the Georgian Muslim Union Tariel Nakaidze, who puts forward new proposals and demands, is taking part in the negotiations between the authorities and Yusuf Mikeladze. "He was included in the negotiations on April 5 and gave directives on what questions need to be asked and what needs to be talked about. I think this process needs to be managed," the mayor said.

Representatives of the Muslim community assured that they would gather for Friday prayers on April 12 in the house of Yusuf Mikeladze, while accusing the authorities of beginning repressions against Muslims. “The state has officially legitimized the repressive policy against the Muslim community... We will definitely pray on Friday, and no one will stop us, many other people will be added,” one of the representatives of the Muslim community, who comes to prayer at Mikeladze’s house on Fridays, said on the television channel.

Residents of Adigeni said on air that they are against Muslim meetings in Mikeladze’s house, since there are no local residents among them; they come from other villages to pray. In their opinion, there is no reason for meetings in a private house, since there are mosques and prayer houses in villages inhabited by Muslims.

Adigeni is a regional center located in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region. According to the latest census in 2014, 16 thousand 462 people live in it. In the Adigeni region there are Georgian Orthodox churches, there are monasteries and mosques.


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Posted by: badanov || 04/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [138 views] Top|| File under:

#1  dozens of residents of the village of Adigeni in southern Georgia held a protest against Muslims gathering for prayer.

I guess some Georgians understand Islam.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/07/2024 0:56 Comments || Top||


Medvedev accuses France of involvement in the Crocus terrorist attack
Direct Translation via Google Translate.

Text taken from a news article, quoting Dmitry Medvedev.

[ColonelCassad] About the accomplices of the terrorist attack committed on March 22 at Crocus City Hall

As is known, in criminal law it is customary to distinguish complicity in the commission of a crime when several persons deliberately participate in it. Let's figure out who became an accomplice in this heinous criminal act.

1. Performers. Everything is clear with them: these underdeveloped bastards have been caught, investigative actions are being carried out with them. Moreover, it is obvious that, despite multiple references to their affiliation with IS/ISIS/Vilayat Khorasan* (a terrorist organization banned in Russia), these scum are by no means religious fanatics who are ready to die for their faith. They showed neither external nor internal paraphernalia. They are primitive assassins, hired for relatively little money and trained to shoot. Just animals, human trash.

2. Organizers. With them it is somewhat more complicated, which is why the legend about the responsibility of the Islamic State was developed, which the extremists happily confirmed. But they always do this, just to increase their capital. Well, no one canceled the money, they probably got theirs. But the true organizers are still hiding in the shadow of the Islamic State. That's the idea. But already the first information published from the phones of hired geeks clearly indicates the nationality of the organizers.

Like many other things - open (destination) and still closed. These are officials of Nazi “Ukraine”. It was in their ugly brain that the idea was born to compensate for failures at the front with terrorist attacks, which, however, is not surprising. They will have to answer either legally or otherwise. The same way they deal with terrorists all over the world. No statute of limitations.

3. Accomplices. A lot of them. Their circle is expanding and includes those who gave property, money, organized the movement, taught to shoot, etc. Everything is clear with them, too, and they will answer. Much more interesting are other accomplices, or international sponsors of terrorists. And here, alas, the situation is this: these include senior officials of NATO countries. They are different. Yes, at least the same Macron. His rhetoric, his actions, and most importantly, his sanctions for secret operations with the Bandera regime may well be qualified as complicity in the terrorist attack of March 22.

That is why the lover of oysters and champagne shit himself so much that he was forced to publicly deny France’s involvement in the terrorist attack himself and through his subordinates. It is obvious that Macron and a number of other Western leaders are the sponsors of this terrible terrorist attack. There is no forgiveness for this. There is no hiding behind immunities here. And from now on they are not just enemies of Russia.

More from regnum.ru
Medvedev: the true organizers of the terrorist attack at Crocus are hiding in the shadow of ISIS

The organizers of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall are officials of Nazi Ukraine, who are hiding in the shadow of IS (a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation), Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev wrote on April 6 in his Telegram channel.

He noted that the direct perpetrators of the terrorist attack were not religious fanatics. They did not display Nazi paraphernalia and did not behave like those who were ready to die for their faith. Medvedev emphasized that these are primitive hired killers, hired for relatively little money and trained to shoot.

“Just animals, human scum,” Medvedev wrote.

The situation with the organizers is more complicated, noted the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council. A legend was created for them about the responsibility of IS for the terrorist attack, and the terrorist group readily confirmed this version, since in this way it increased its weight.

“Well, no one canceled the money, they probably got theirs. But the true organizers are still hiding in the shadow of the Islamic State. This is the plan,” Medvedev wrote.

He recalled that information from the performers’ phones clearly indicates the nationality of the organizers. Undoubtedly, these are officials of Nazi Ukraine.

“It was in their ugly brain that the idea was born to compensate for failures at the front with terrorist attacks, which, however, is not surprising,” Medvedev said.

He emphasized that the Nazis must answer for the crime they committed - either according to the law or otherwise. This crime should not have a statute of limitations.

As Regnum reported, the terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk at Crocus City Hall occurred on the evening of March 22. As a result, 145 people were killed and 551 injured. A rock concert was to take place that evening in the concert hall, which seats six thousand. The terrorists started shooting and a fire, as a result of which the concert hall was completely burned out.

The Afghan branch of the IS "Vilayat Khorasan" (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) took responsibility for the terrorist attack.

A criminal case was opened in Russia under an article about a terrorist attack. Four direct perpetrators were detained in the Bryansk region, not far from the border with Ukraine. They are now under arrest. In total, 11 defendants in the case were sent to pre-trial detention center.

On April 5, the Investigative Committee reported that during the investigation, photographs of people with the flag of Ukraine were found on the mobile phones of those accused of the terrorist attack. The Russian Investigative Committee stated that these data may indicate a connection between the terrorist attack and the conduct of the SVO. FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu also pointed to the Ukrainian trail.

President Vladimir Putin said the main goal of those who ordered the terrorist attack was to damage the unity of Russia
Posted by: badanov || 04/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [90 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Home Front: Politix
Chicago mayor faces increasing criticism as migrant spending approaches $300 million
[JustTheNews] In the 11 months since Johnson took over at City Hall, data from the “New Arrivals Mission” website pegs spending on non-citizen migrants at nearly $300 million with more than 38,000 migrants having arrived in the city.

Posted by: Skidmark || 04/07/2024 07:30 || Comments || Link || [151 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Compared to the millions in Texas.

There was a tiktok post of a Denver official offering up free bus tickets for illegals to Chicago and New York City 'cause they offer more free stuff. Commie on commie. Pass the popcorn.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/07/2024 13:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Isn't this the guy who blamed Trump for a failed tax increase to support migrants?

Best salesman ever.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/07/2024 15:31 Comments || Top||

#3  We need another Australia. How about one of the moons of Jupiter?
Posted by: AlanC || 04/07/2024 16:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Man I wouldn't even joke about sending politicians to Europa.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/07/2024 18:21 Comments || Top||

#5  And Australia is full. Attempt no landing there.
Posted by: Ululating+Platypus || 04/07/2024 23:43 Comments || Top||


Pelosi joins call for Biden to stop transfer of US weapons to Israel
[GEO.TV] Representative Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
, former House speaker and a key ally of Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan...
, signed a letter on Friday from dozens of congressional Democrats to the president and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging a halt to weapons transfers to Israel.
Paul must have investments with Hamas and Hezbollah
Support from Pelosi, a veteran member of Biden's Democratic Party, for stopping the transfer of weapons to Israel showed that the view is increasingly becoming mainstream in the party.

Friday's letter called on the Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
to conduct its own probe into an Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
that killed seven staff of the aid group World Central Kitchen on Monday.

"In light of the recent strike against aid workers and the ever-worsening humanitarian crisis, we believe it is unjustifiable to approve these weapons transfers," the letter said. It was signed by Pelosi and 36 other Democrats including Representatives Barbara Lee, Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Sandy Ocasio-Cortez
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore...

Posted by: Fred || 04/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [190 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  from dozens of congressional Democrats

That's NOT 51 intelligence experts.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/07/2024 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Cleared for publication: Four IDF soldiers fell in battle in Gaza

Sacrifices to tender consciences of Western liberals.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/07/2024 2:18 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ A tragic loss of life.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/07/2024 5:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Guess those campaign contribution really dried up this year.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/07/2024 6:59 Comments || Top||

#5  She's worried about protesters in front of her house.
Posted by: Secret Master || 04/07/2024 12:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Sensing the Puppet Show is about to shut down certain kinds of arms transfers, Nancy wants to offer her considerable back-channel support to the effort.

In other news. utterly unrelated and coincidental, it seems Paul is considering short positions on Raytheon and General Dynamics.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/07/2024 13:35 Comments || Top||


The ‘improbable friend’: For true progressives, Israel is an exemplar, says Ritchie Torres
[IsraelTimes] A soundbite-packed interview with the visiting Democratic rising star, a Bronx congressional neighbor of AOC who rejects her ‘genocide’ allegation as a blood libel

Congressman Ritchie Torres’s first trip abroad, ever, was to Israel — as a newly elected 26-year-old member of the New York City Council, nine years ago. It was, he says, “one of the most formative and transformative experiences of my life.” And it helped make him “more visibly and vocally pro-Israel than most people,” and especially those of his Afro-Latino background.

Thus, while his Bronx Congressional neighbor Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a fellow rising “political star,” was last month accusing Israel of carrying out “genocide” in Gaza, Torres, who calls the allegation “a blood libel,” was finalizing preparations for another of his many Israel visits, his first since October 7.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 04/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [91 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


India-Pakistan
Sindh authorities given one-month ultimatum to restore law and order
[GEO.TV] The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Saturday give a one-month ultimatum to the provincial authorities to restore law and order in the province amid rising incidents of street crime in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, Geo News reported.
The directives were issued after SHC Chief Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi chaired a session on the law and order situation in Sindh earlier today.

Justice Abbasi ordered the provincial authorities to restore law and order across the province within a month. He also directed strict actions against "influential persons" who were involved in sabotaging the law and order situation.

The SHC chief justice also summoned a detailed report regarding the law and order in 15 days.

Following the SHC orders, Inspector General Police (IGP) Sindh Ghulam Nabi Memon said that the high court’s top judge was briefed on the situation and gave instructions. He added that the police department also gave a briefing to the high court regarding the implementation of previous court orders.

He admitted that street crimes were among key elements behind deteriorated peace situation in Karachi while bandidos of katcha (riverine) were also a big challenge to maintain law and order in other parts of the province.

"Discussions were also held on increasing patrolling of police contingents to curb street crimes in Karachi. There is a need to improve our criminal justice system, whereas, key points were also discussed regarding the interrogation process," he added.


Posted by: Fred || 04/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [61 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
120,000 Muslim worshipers pray peacefully at Al-Aqsa on final Friday of Ramadan
[IsraelTimes] Day passes without major incidents despite heightened tensions over Gaza war, , Iranian threats of revenge; 11 arrested for pro-Hamas chants, scuffles with police.

Tens of thousands of Moslem worshippers prayed peacefully at the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on the last Friday of Ramadan despite fears of unrest due to 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 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 and surging tensions with Iran.

The Islamic Waqf, which administers the holy site, estimated that some 120,000 people attended the afternoon prayers. The Israel police said "tens of thousands" attended
…an order of magnitude difference? How very interesting…
and that prayers passed largely without incident amid a massive police deployment.

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
police said they arrested one person for attacking an officer, and two others for defying a previous order to stay away from Islam’s third-holiest site.

"Police will continue augmented operations in Jerusalem until Saturday morning, as the ’Leilat al-Qader’ prayers end on the Temple Mount," a police statement said.

Earlier in the day, police said they had arrested eight people for incitement when some of those attending the dawn prayers at al-Aqsa "began chanting in support of terrorism." Of those arrested, four were from northern Israel and had Israeli citizenship, while the other four were from East Jerusalem, police said.

Video on social media from the early Temple Mount prayers showed dozens shouting "with spirit and blood we will redeem Al Aqsa" and chanting "Abu Obeida," referring to the Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
spokesperson’s nom de guerre.

For the first time since the beginning of the holy month, a police drone dropped tear gas on the suspected inciters at the flashpoint site.

Tensions in Israel and the West Bank have been high since October 7, when snuffies burst through the Gaza border into Israel in a Hamas-led attack, killing at least 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and seizing 253 hostages.

Prayers at the Temple Mount during the previous three Fridays of Ramadan also ended comparatively peacefully, allaying Israeli fears that the Moslem holy month would be especially fraught due to the ongoing war on Hamas in Gaza. Yahya Sinwar, the Paleostinian terror group’s military chief in Gaza, was believed by Israel to have pursued an escalation in the conflict during the Moslem holy month, which Israeli security forces generally considered a period of heightened tensions.

Tensions were especially high on Friday, 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...
threatening retaliation for an alleged Israeli strike in Damascus that killed several Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members, including the country’s top commander in Syria.

The funeral ceremony for the IRGC members coincided with Quds (Jerusalem) Day, which Iran and its allies have marked on the last Friday of Ramadan each year since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, claiming it as an occasion to express support for the Paleostinians.

Wary of stoking tensions, the Israeli government in February nixed an attempt by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to block young Arab men with Israeli citizenship from going to the Temple Mount during Ramadan. However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
restrictions were placed on West Bank Paleostinians.

In 2021, festivities between police and Moslem devout atop the Temple Mount during Ramadan led to a military operation against Hamas in Gaza, during which Arab-Jewish violence erupted like lava from a volcano in parts of Israel as well.

The site is the holiest place in Judaism, where two biblical Temples once stood, and the al-Aqsa Mosque is the third-holiest shrine in Islam, making the site a perennial flashpoint of the Israeli-Arab conflict.

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UK paper reveals ID of 8200 intelligence unit chief, says he accidentally outed himself
[IsraelTimes] ’Embarrassing security lapse’ discovered through Google account linked to officer’s 2021 book on AI and warfare said to resemble IDF’s fighting in Gaza.
Idiot.
The British Guardian newspaper on Friday revealed the identity of the commander of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 8200, by following a digital trail linked to a book on warfare and artificial intelligence that the officer had published on Amazon.

The Guardian named the officer who heads the classified elite unit. However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
following the revelation, his identity was not published by Israeli media due to military censorship guidelines.

The book at the center of what The Guardian called an "embarrassing security lapse" was The Human Machine Team, a 2021 book whose author, identified only as Brig. Gen. YS, "offers a radical vision for how AI can transform the relationship between military personnel and machines."

According to The Guardian, the book’s themes "closely resemble" AI-powered target identification systems alleged to have been employed by the Israeli Defense Forces, a claim that the military denies.

The Guardian said that an electronic version of The Human Machine Team "included an anonymous email address that can easily be traced" to the secretive commander’s name and Google account. Multiple sources confirmed The Guardian’s identification of the intelligence officer, the British newspaper said.

The IDF responded to the report by saying that the email address it had unearthed was not the officer’s personal account, but rather was devoted to the book.

"The book in question was published several years ago and the address mentioned in it is not used by the officer personally and has not been used in the past," the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in response to a query on the report.

"However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
the reveal of the officer’s personal details is a mistake. The issue will be investigated to prevent the recurrence of similar cases in the future," the IDF added.

The 8200 unit is the military’s main signals intelligence gathering unit. It is a highly regarded unit with a revolving door into Israel’s burgeoning tech industry.

The discovery that its commander allowed his identity to be discovered will add to accusations of hubris and damage to 8200’s reputation as reports surfaced that the unit’s top brass had largely dismissed warnings ahead of Hamas
...always the voice of sweet reason...
’s brutal October 7 onslaught.


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UN says Israel approved reopening of 20 bakeries, water pipeline in northern Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Amid efforts to boost flow of aid into Strip, humanitarian official says coordination to be enhanced between military and aid workers, trucks entering from Jordan to be doubled.

The United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
on Saturday said Israel had authorized the opening of 20 bakeries in the northern 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 and and a waterline to supply the area, as part of a list of the country’s "commitments" to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

A statement from the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Gaza and the West Bank, Jamie McGoldrick listed other measures announced earlier this week, including the opening of the Erez Crossing to the northern Strip for the first time since October 7 and increasing the number of trucks entering via Jordan from the Allenby Bridge crossing.

McGoldrick also said a "better functioning coordination cell will be established that links humanitarians directly with the IDF Southern Command."

While most of the steps detailed in McGoldrick’s statement were announced by the Prime Minister’s Office early Friday morning, he expanded on the details of the approvals, which he said came "in response to our repeated requests."

In addition to expanding border crossing operating hours and capacity, the UN official said Israel has approved the activation of 20 bakeries and the reopening of the Nahal Oz waterline in northern Gaza, which was shut off on October 9, with the outbreak of war.

The statement said the number of trucks allowed to pass through from Jordan will be increased from 25 to at least 50 per day, while an additional 100 trucks per day will be scanned via the Kerem Shalom and Nitzana crossings in the south of the Strip.

He noted an additional scanner would be installed at Kerem Shalom "to accelerate the transfer of aid into Gaza."

"As I have stated previously, the humanitarian community is prepared to scale up assistance in Gaza, but this requires better security, greater access, and more reliable facilitation from Israeli authorities," he said in the statement.

"We stand ready to work with all parties to alleviate the suffering of people in Gaza."

The new measures were announced after a tense phone call Thursday between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?...
, who threatened to condition support for Israel’s offensive in Gaza on Jerusalem taking concrete steps to protect aid workers and civilians.

It was the first conversation between the two since an Israeli strike in central Gaza late on Monday killed seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen. Israel has called the strike on the WCK convoy a "grave mistake" and has announced the removal of a number of officers responsible. But Netanyahu also said that "these things happen in war" — a line that wasn’t well received internationally.

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken welcomed the moves on Friday while adding that success would be measured by the results in improving the situation on the ground.

"Really the proof is in the results, and we will see those unfold in the coming days, in the coming weeks," Blinken said, speaking alongside European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
leaders in Belgium.

Earlier Saturday, the United Nations’ under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief, Martin Griffiths, decried the ongoing war in Gaza as a "betrayal of humanity."

In a statement on the eve of the six-month anniversary of the war, the outgoing humanitarian official called for a "collective determination that there be a reckoning for this betrayal of humanity."

"For the people of Gaza, the past six months of war have brought death, devastation, and now the immediate prospect of a shameful man-made famine," he said

"For the people affected by the lasting horror of the October 7 attacks, it has been six months of grief and torment," he added.
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Invading Rafah to lead to another massacre, warns Jordan
[GEO.TV] Amid the reports that Israel is planning to invade Rafah, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi has warned that the attack would lead to another massacre.
Certainly it would were Jordan running things instead of Israel. Hamas is in luck, there.
Safadi said several UN agencies — including UNICEF, WHO, OCHA, UNRWA and WFP — have "spoken of the horror Israel brought on 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 Hamaswith 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...
".

"It’s time their call for ending this brutality was heeded. UNICEF is now focusing on the fear for the lives of 600,000 boys and girls in Rafah if an invasion is allowed. It must not be allowed," he added.
Of course, Hamas could always turn in its weapons and go out of business... No?
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#1  When was the first?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/07/2024 1:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Battle of Rafah
fought on 9 January 1917

or...

Battle of Raphia (720 BCE), a battle between Pharonic Egypt and Assyria, at Rafah, during the reign of Pharaoh Osorkon IV

Battle of Raphia (217 BCE), a battle between the Ptolemaic Egypt and the Seleucid Empire, near Rafah

Battle of Rafa, a World War I battle in 1917

Battle of Rafah (1948) in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War

Battle of Rafah (2009), part of the Palestinian political violence
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/07/2024 5:11 Comments || Top||


#4  He says "another massacre" like it is a bad thing. If Israel were Jordan, they would have already kicked to Paleos out.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/07/2024 12:31 Comments || Top||

#5  What did Jordan do after Black September.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/07/2024 21:25 Comments || Top||



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