[IsraelTimes] French daily Le Monde reports funds taken from the vaults of several branches in the Strip by groups armed with explosives, commandos who answer to ‘Gaza’s highest authorities’
Armed groups in Gaza, including one with presumed Hamas links, last month robbed the Bank of Palestine of some $70 million, French daily Le Monde reported Saturday.
The funds were taken from the vaults of several branches of the bank, it said, citing a Bank of Palestine document sent to “certain international partners” detailing the robberies.
On April 16, staff discovered a hole in the ceiling of the safe deposit room at one of the bank’s Gaza branches and found that some $3 million worth of Israeli shekels destined for cash dispensers were missing, Le Monde said.
The next day, armed groups equipped with explosives returned to the site, blew up a cement protection chamber and took more than $30 million in various currencies from three safes.
Two days later, the biggest Gaza branch was attacked by commandos who said they answered to “Gaza’s highest authorities,” which the paper said is understood to mean Hamas.
They took more than $36 million worth of shekels.
The Bank of Palestine, founded in 1960, is Gaza’s leading financial institution.
The Palestinian Monetary Authority, an independent body that oversees the financial system in Palestinian territories, said when contacted by AFP that it was planning to issue a statement about the issue later Saturday.
[Regnum] The Yemeni rebel movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) intends to attack ships associated with Israel or going to its ports everywhere, including in the Mediterranean Sea, if Israel launches an operation in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. This was stated on May 3 by the military representative of the organization, Yahya Sariya, on the Al Masirah TV channel.
Yeah, yeah. You’re repeating yourselves, kids.
“The Yemeni armed forces are ready to attack all ships violating the decision to ban Israeli shipping and heading to the ports of occupied Palestine, including in the Mediterranean Sea, in any area within range,” he said.
According to Saria, Yemeni rebels will begin such actions if the Israeli army launches a military operation in Rafah.
The Houthis also intend, in the event of such a development of the situation, to introduce “comprehensive sanctions” against all ships of companies related to supply and entry into Israeli ports, and will also prevent the passage of all ships of these companies through the area under their control, he added.
As Regnum reported, on April 30, Saria announced an attack by the Houthis on two US Navy destroyers and the bulk carrier Cyclades in the Red Sea, as well as the container ship MSC Orion in the Indian Ocean. According to him, drones and other weapons sent to US Navy destroyers achieved their intended targets.
Earlier in the day, the Royal Navy's Maritime Trade Coordination Center reported an attack on a merchant ship off the coast of Yemen. It was noted that none of the crew members were injured as a result of this.
On April 30, the US military announced the destruction of a Houthi UAV in the Red Sea. According to US Central Command, the Houthis also attacked a commercial vessel with three anti-ship ballistic missiles and three drones.
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[Regnum] Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a May 3 briefing that weapons transferred to the Kiev regime are “surfacing” in Western countries, which themselves are becoming victims of their own supplies.
Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova
“Terrorist attacks are already being carried out around the world directly on the territory of the countries of the collective West, in which weapons [supplied to Ukraine] are involved,” the diplomat said.
Zakharova drew attention to the fact that Western weapons supplied to the Kyiv regime appear not only in terrorist attacks, but also in conflict zones. No citizen of Western countries is immune from becoming a victim of these weapons and ideologies that the West instilled in Ukraine, she added.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry recalled that terrorists created and nurtured by the West returned there, and all Western projects similar to Ukraine ended the same way.
As Regnum reported, on May 2, Zakharova called on London to prepare for the fact that Kiev, like terrorists, would strike with British weapons on the territory of the kingdom. The diplomat recalled that at one time, al-Qaeda terrorists, nurtured by the West, carried out terrorist attacks in Western countries.
At a briefing on May 3, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov called British Foreign Minister David Cameron's statement about Kiev's right to attack targets on Russian territory dangerous. A Kremlin spokesman said that this kind of escalation of tensions around the Ukrainian conflict could potentially pose a danger to European security.
[IsraelTimes] Karim Khan warns against trying to impede investigation into Israel’s conduct in Gaza, after US lawmakers reportedly meet with senior court officials.
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Intimidation works. It's time the world began to fear Jews. Crossing Jews must carry a large price tag and anyone who does must know that they will pay.
Alan Dershowitz vows he will engage in "massive offensive lawfare" against allegedly "anti-Semitic" student protesters. He threatens to have their dorm rooms taken away, take their cars and boomboxes, and "bankrupt" them. He says this is necessary to "deter" the return of Hitler pic.twitter.com/I4D4xgCbsV
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Re #2: Well, he's wanted, anyway, for trying to charge Putin.
" Khan was being probed for the “criminal prosecution of a person known to be innocent” – in reference to the war crime charges against Putin. "
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According to Grom’s link, Mr. Khan was born in Edinburgh – another of those civic minded, native-born Scots in public service like the former Scots PM.
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The answer is simple, Israel didn't sign it. Any action the ICC takes against it should be considered terrorism and result in immediate, personal kinetic retaliation. After a few of the ICC wind up splattered across the landscape in mysterious cell phone explosions, they'll get the message.
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli official close to ongoing talks to secure a hostage release deal discounts Arab media reports that claim the US has guaranteed Israel will withdraw all troops from Gaza at the conclusion of a three-phased ceasefire agreement.
“Contrary to the reports, Israel will under no circumstances agree to the end of the war as part of an agreement to release our hostages,” the official says.
“As the political echelon decided, the IDF will enter Rafah and destroy the remaining Hamas battalions there – with or without a temporary respite to allow for the release of our hostages,” the official adds.
Israel has repeatedly rejected ending the war to destroy Hamas in Gaza as a condition for a hostage release deal.
[Ynet] Long before discussions about the need for Israeli citizens to carry guns, Lovie Malespin had already unlocked her weapon and aimed at the target; How did someone who grew up in a closed Christian community - whose members are against carrying weapons - become a shooting instructor and a successful gun model who promotes Israeli weapons abroad?
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Actually there are guns permitted in the Amish community, intended to take out varmints that are a threat to livestock.
The sabotage being that Bibi refused to surrender and promised that if there’s no deal within a week or two Israel will attack Rafah. How dreadful of him.
[GEO.TV] Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... leader Hossam Badran has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of undermining prospects for a truce in the war.
The top Hamas official told AFP that the group was in the process of conducting internal dialogues within its leadership and with allied groups before negotiators returned to Cairo to continue negotiations towards a truce.
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[An Nahar] Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... met Monday evening with Hezbollah secretary-general's political aide Hussein Khalil and handed him a copy of the French paper suggesting a solution for the Israel-Hezbollah border conflict, MTV said.
According to MTV, Berri told Khalil that "the offer is good and deserves to be studied."
Hezbollah for its part was "satisfied with the French paper and with the use of the term 'redeployment' instead of Hezbollah's 'withdrawal' to the area beyond the Litani River which had been previously used by (U.S. mediator Amos) Hochstein," MTV reported.
"Hezbollah does not mind what is proposed in the French and U.S. papers, specifically (Israel's) full withdrawal from seven border points and partial withdrawal from other points while keeping the Shebaa Farms problem pending," the TV network added.
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If it came from EUrope, it is (IMO) bad for the Jews.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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