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When the 'Donate' tab works again, I'll make a celebratory donation. Welcome back!
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5x5
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Sometimes I worry about spending too much time in front of a screen. I think too many people these days spend too much time on their phones, on their computers or in front of the TV. And, believe it or not, I have other things to do.
But I look forward every morning to Rantburg and the civil, well reasoned discourse. Can't find it anywhere else. I miss it when it's down.
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And, yes #6, I look forward to the snark as well.
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When I hit my Rantburg bookmark and it came up blank, I thought “oh no, I sure hope this is temporary”. And lo, it came to pass. I really appreciate the work you do Fred, as well as the lively, informed commentary from the usual suspects. My day is bright.
[IsraelTimes] In overnight operations in the West Bank, the IDF and police say troops nabbed two Paleostinians who allegedly shot up an army post several hours earlier.
The two suspects had shot up the military position near Nablus. The IDF says during their arrest in the West Bank city, a gun believed to have been used in the attack was seized.
In another raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem, police and IDF troops detained a wanted Paleostinian 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... terrorist.
Omar Abu Halal is suspected of being involved in previous shooting attacks and manufacturing bombs, the IDF says.
Note that Moslem yoots are not permitted on the Temple Mount this Ramadan season, so mostly they’re whining that they had to stay below while the women and grown-ups got to ascend.
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Death cult.
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[IsraelTimes] ’The devil took over me, I raped her,’ he admits; IDF says footage is ’further proof of the onslaught of murder and sexual violence by terrorist organizations’
The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday released new interrogation footage of a Paleostinian 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... terrorist who was seen confessing to raping an Israeli woman in a kibbutz in southern Israel during the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-led October 7 onslaught on Israeli communities.
The terrorist, Manar Qassem, who was captured by the IDF earlier this month in Khan Younis, said he was a member of Islamic Jihad’s naval forces.
In the interrogation carried out by the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 — which specializes in HUMINT, or human intelligence — Qassem is asked what he did on October 7, to which he provided a detailed response.
Qassem said he entered Israel through a breach 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 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... border fence between the Khan Younis area towns of al-Fukhkhari and Khuza’a, armed with a handgun and two grenades.
He said that as he reached the unnamed kibbutz, he entered the closest home, where he encountered a woman who was startled.
"I took her and threw her on the couch," Qassem told the interrogators, recalling in detail what she looked like and what she was wearing.
"The devil took over me, I laid her down, started undressing her, and did what I did," he said.
Pressed by the interrogator as to what he had done, Qassem responded by saying: "I slept with her."
Asked again, Qassem said, "I raped her." Whoopi: "But it wasn't Rape-Rape"
"She pushed me, it didn’t last long... Two minutes. Maybe a minute and a half," he was heard saying.
At that point, according to Qassem, two members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades terror group entered the home and put the woman together with her mother for a short while, before taking both out of the house.
Qassem said he was left alone and decided to head back to the Gaza Strip. He said he heard gunshots and then shot one Israeli man near him before throwing one of his grenades and fleeing the kibbutz.
The IDF said the footage is "further proof of the onslaught of murder and sexual violence by terrorist organizations on October 7th," adding that it released the clip "in an effort to give voice to those who can no longer be heard."
Officials did not say whether they knew the fate of the woman, though the latter comment suggested she did not survive.
The release of the video came three weeks after the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... envoy on sex crimes during conflict presented a report at the UN indicating that rape and gang rape likely occurred during the October 7 Hamas invasion.
The 24-page report, based on more than two weeks of meetings on the ground, states that there are "reasonable grounds" to believe that Hamas committed rape and sexual abuse during its murderous rampage on October 7, and that there is an even higher standard of evidence to indicate that hostages kidnapped by Hamas that day were subject to rape in captivity.
Freed hostage Amit Soussana told The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... in an interview published Tuesday that she was sexually assaulted by her Hamas guard during her captivity in Gaza.
The war in Gaza started on October 7 with Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel, in which turbans murdered some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 253.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza claims that more than 32,000 Paleostinians have been killed by Israel in the war. The number cannot be independently verified, and is believed to include both Hamas turbans and civilians, some of whom were killed as a consequence of the terror group’s own rocket misfires. The IDF says it has killed over 13,000 turbans in Gaza, in addition to some 1,000 who were killed inside Israel on and immediately following October 7.
[IsraelTimes] Death of soldier in southern Gazoo fighting brings army’s toll during ground operation to 253; large section of tunnel linking north and south Gaza blown up
Israeli commandos raiding 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... City’s Shifa Hospital killed one of the Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, terror group’s top commanders, the army said Thursday, as fighting raged in several areas of the Strip and the number of troops killed in combat reached the symbolically significant toll of 253.
The Israel Defense Forces said Hamas commander Raad Thabet was killed by soldiers from the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit as he attempted to flee with two other operatives into the hospital compound.
Thabet was the top official in charge of recruitment and supply acquisition for the terror group’s armed wing, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Thursday evening, announcing the killing.
He described Thabet as among the 10 most senior Hamas military commanders, and said he had been in close contact with leaders of the terror group, including its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar and shadowy military wing head Mohammed Deif.
Israeli troops have been operating in the hospital since March 18, with the IDF saying that Hamas had re-established a command center there.
Hagari said troops also engaged in a firefight in the hospital’s maternity ward, killing three button men. Fighters also shot up troops after emerging from an emergency room, where they had been holed up, the army said earlier, noting that similar incidents had occurred several times over the past few days.
Troops have detained more than 900 terror suspects at Shifa Hospital during the raid, according to the IDF, and have killed more than 200 button men.
Hagari said Thursday that 513 of those captured had been confirmed to be members of terror groups, while 350 people were identified as patients and medical staff.
Shifa, the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital before the war, had been one of the few healthcare facilities even partially operational in north Gaza before the latest fighting. It had also been housing displaced civilians.
Unverified footage on social media showed its surgery unit blackened by flames and nearby apartments on fire or destroyed.
Hamas and the allied 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 group said in a statement they "bombed, with a barrage of mortar shells, gatherings of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the al-Shifa Complex" in a joint operation.
The IDF says it has evacuated civilians, patients, and medical staff to another part of the hospital "prepared and established to allow proper medical treatment to continue."
SOLDIER KILLED IN KHAN YOUNIS
In southern Gaza, the army announced the death of Staff Sgt. Nisim Kachlon, 21, of the Givati Brigade’s Rotem Battalion.
According to the IDF, the Hadera native was killed Thursday amid fighting in the Khan Younis area.
His death brought the number of troops killed since Israel’s ground offensive began to 253, matching the number of people kidnapped on October 7 as Hamas-led snuffies carried out a brutal assault on southern Israel. Some 1,200 people were massacred during the onslaught; most of those killed and kidnapped were civilians.
Israel has vowed to both wipe out Hamas and secure the hostages’ release. The army says there are 130 people kidnapped from Israel in Hamas captivity, including nearly three dozen people who were killed on October 7 or while held hostage whose remains Gazook snuffies continue to hold.
Talks for a temporary truce and the release of hostages appeared to advance earlier in the week, but fell apart after Hamas rejected a compromise, saying it is will only agree to a permanent end to the war and complete withdrawal of troops from Gaza.
Earlier, the IDF said commando and other forces had seized hundreds of weapons during an ongoing offensive in the al-Amal neighborhood of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Numerous button men have also been killed by troops in al-Amal, including with sniper fire, in close-quarters combat, and by calling in Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, according to the IDF.
In a video published by the IDF, a cache of firearms, bombs, and other military equipment was seen being found by the Paratroopers Brigade’s reconnaissance unit in a building adjacent to al-Amal Hospital.
The World Health Organization says the al-Amal hospital has ceased to function due to fighting, leaving just 10 of 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip partially operational. Another Khan Younis hospital, Nasser, was also surrounded by troops, Gazooks said.
International law stipulates that while a medical facility is a protected site in conflict, it loses that status if it is used for military activity. Israel has offered evidence Hamas uses such facilities as cover for terror purposes and says the group plunders humanitarian aid to take supplies for its fighters, depriving the civilian population.
In central Gaza, Hagari said troops destroyed a 2.5-kilometer (1.5-mile) section of a Hamas tunnel that was part of an underground network that connected between northern and southern Gaza.
He said more than 30 tons of explosives were used in the overnight demolition. The military released footage of it blowing up the tunnel.
In the southern Gaza city of Rafah an airstrike killed several people, according to Hamas health officials.
Israel has promised to launch a ground invasion of Rafah, saying the city on the border with Egypt is the last remaining Hamas stronghold in the Gaza Strip.
Over half of Gaza’s population has sought refuge in Rafah, many in makeshift tent camps, United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... shelters and crowded apartments. The US says it shares Israel’s goal of defeating Hamas but a major assault on the city would be a mistake.
According to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, at least 32,552 Paleostinians have been killed in Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip since October 7.
The figures cannot be independently verified, and are believed to include both civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza, including as a consequence of the terror groups’ own rocket misfires. The IDF says it has killed over 13,000 combatants in Gaza since the war started, in addition to some 1,000 snuffies inside Israel on October 7.
[IsraelTimes] Afternoon prayers for the third Friday of Ramadan have ended at the Al-Aqsa Mosque atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, with the Israel Police reporting they passed without incident.
The Islamic Waqf says 125,000 people took part in the prayers, slightly up from last week, while police put turnout in the tens of thousands and the Foreign Ministry "over 50,000."
Along with the Ramadan prayers, hundreds of Christians participated in a customary Good Friday procession through the limestone walls of the Old City, commemorating one of the faith’s most sacred days with noticeably thinner crowds amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
Police say they arrested 11 people in the Old City throughout the day, including several suspects for chanting "incitement and support for terrorism" following morning prayers at the Temple Mount.
Tens of thousands of Jordanians in Amman are protesting outside the Israeli Embassy. Unprecedented numbers.
"We swear by the Almighty God to support the resistance, to reject normalization, and to sacrifice our lives and blood for Gaza." pic.twitter.com/GTh8FMCLlv
[geo.tv] Friday Mar 29 2024 | 02:38 PM: At least 32,623 Palestinians have been killed and 75,092 injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since October 7, the Gaza health ministry said on Friday.
Keep checking back to see what’s new from the Pakistani perspective.
More from Fred at 12:30 pm ET:
At least 12 Palestinians killed in Israeli strike targeting Rafah, health officials tell Reuters
[Geo.tv] At least 12 Palestinians were killed on Thursday in an Israeli strike that targeted a house in Gaza's Rafah, health officials told Reuters.
[IsraelTrimes] UK-based Syrian Observatory says Israel attacked missile depots for Hezbollah near Aleppo airport, while state media says drone strikes by insurgent groups occurred simultaneously
The Syrian army claimed that Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s early Friday near the northern city of Aleppo killed and maimed several people and caused material damage, while security sources cited by Rooters said that at least 38 people had been killed.
Syrian state media quoted an unnamed military official as saying that the Israeli strikes coincided with drone attacks by Syrian holy warrior groups on civilian targets in Aleppo and its suburbs. It did not give an exact number of casualties.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor with questionable funding and sourcing, said Israeli strikes hit missile depots for 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 terrorist Hezbollah group in Aleppo’s southern suburb of Jibreen near the Aleppo International Airport. It added that 36 soldiers were killed and dozens were maimed in the strikes. The Observatory said explosions were still heard two hours after the strikes.
Two security sources cited by Rooters said that the strikes killed 38 people, including five members of Hezbollah.
Syrian state news agency SANA said the pre-dawn strike killed and maimed civilians, as well as military personnel, without providing a corpse count.
There was no immediate statement from Israeli officials on the strikes. Israel frequently launches strikes on Iran-linked targets in Syria but rarely acknowledges them.
On Thursday, Syrian state media reported airstrikes near the capital Damascus, saying it maimed two civilians.
Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and once its commercial center, has come under such attacks in the past that led to the closure of its international airport. Friday’s strike did not affect the airport.
The strikes have escalated over the past five months against the backdrop of the war in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... and ongoing festivities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces on the Lebanon-Israel border.
The war began on October 7 with Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s unprecedented attack on Israel in which holy warriors murdered some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 253. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza claims that more than 32,000 Paleostinians have been killed by Israel in the war, an unverified figure which includes more than 13,000 Hamas operatives killed by Israel.
Israel has exchanged near-daily, cross-border fire with Hamas ally Hezbollah since the Gaza war began, sparking fears of a major regional conflagration.
At least 346 people have been killed in Lebanon — mostly Hezbollah terrorists, but also including at least 68 civilians — in festivities with Israel over the last six months, according to an AFP tally.
The fighting has also displaced tens of thousands of people in southern Lebanon and in northern Israel, where the IDF says 10 soldiers and eight civilians have been killed.
While Iran-backed Hezbollah is Lebanese, it has sent holy warriors into Syria to support its ally Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... since an uprising against his rule erupted in 2011. The uprising quickly morphed into a civil war drawing in regional and global players. Hezbollah has continued to operate in the country since.
The Hezbollah terror group announces the deaths of six members killed “on the road to Jerusalem,” its term for operatives slain in Israeli strikes.
They are named as Ahmed Shehimi from Markaba; Mustafa Makki from Tebnine; Ibrahim al-Zein from Chehour; Ali al-Haf from Halloussiyeh; Mustafa Nassif from Haffir; and Ali Naim from Selaa.
Naim was reported to have been killed in an Israeli strike on a car in the Lebanese town of Bazouriye, close to Tyre this morning, while the other five are believed to have been killed in an alleged IDF strike in Syria’s Aleppo overnight.
Their deaths bring the terror group’s toll since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip to 263.
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As expected, one of the significant targets that was hit is a strategic weapons depot.
Video coming in of strikes by #Israel around Aleppo, #Syria tonight. Some reports suggest Aleppo Int’l Airport and Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center facilities were a target. #IRGCterroristspic.twitter.com/Xjx222b4WT
[JPost] Israeli media reported that a senior Hezbollah official responsible for the terror group's rocket production was killed in the targeted strike.
An Israeli drone strike on a vehicle on the outskirts of Tyre in southern Lebanon on Friday killed a senior Hezbollah official, according to Israeli and Arab media.
The IDF later confirmed the death of Ali Naeem in the strike.
The IDF said Naeem, a senior Hezbollah official, served as the deputy commander of the terror group's rockets and missiles unit.
"Ali was considered to be a significant source of knowledge in the terrorist organization, and leader in the field of rockets. He was also one of the leaders for heavy-warhead rocket fire and responsible for conducting and planning attacks against Israeli civilians," the IDF added.
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[IsraelTimes] Death of soldier in southern 
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[geo.tv] Friday Mar 29 2024 | 02:38 PM: At least 32,623 Palestinians have been killed and 75,092 injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since October 7, the Gaza health ministry said on Friday.
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
