[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 'I love Kamala Harris,' a young Venezuelan man declared as he rested on the side of a highway in southern Mexico last week.
His belongings were heaped at his feet. Hundreds of fellow migrants stretched out along the roadway in both directions. They're headed for the U.S. and nearly all of them have an opinion about who should be America's next president.
'Donald Trump, no,' the Venezuelan man said, shaking his head and dragging his thumb across his throat in a slicing motion. He is one of thousands of migrants – from all over the world – joining a new rush traveling north from southern Mexico toward the U.S. border, less than two weeks before the presidential election.
I went to Tapachula in southwest Mexico near the border with Guatemala to investigate why they were on the move – again.
Throughout 2022 and 2023, massive caravans – some reportedly as large as 6,000-strong – became a common feature of the immigration crisis. The mass migration became such a humanitarian and public relations disaster for the Biden-Harris Administration that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was dispatched to meet with Mexico's president in December 2023 to demand that he impose stricter immigration controls.
And the pressure campaign worked.
In January, I reported for DailyMail.com on Mexican police and military roundups near the U.S. border. Migrants who made it to those northern provinces were detained and shipped hundreds of miles back south to cities like Tapachula in the southwest or Villahermosa near the gulf. The Mexican media called it 'Operation Carousel.'
And for nearly 10 months, the caravans stopped. But now, they're back on.
The migrants I spoke to on the road this week believe that this may be their last chance. Many of them hope to reach the U.S. before November 5 because they fear that, if Trump is re-elected, he'll close the southern border and enforce longstanding immigration laws.
'If [Trump] wins… one has to do what the government says, [wait] for my turn,' said Carlos, a Honduran man in a caravan 30 miles north of Tapachula.
In reality, it's unlikely that these migrants will be able to make the 1,300-mile trek in the next two weeks. But they can try.
And there's another more complicated reason that the caravans have started back up: The Mexican government is encouraging them. The caravans that I traveled with were escorted by Mexican National Guard escorts, something that I have witnessed. Perhaps, it not only the migrants growing restless, so, too, are the authorities.
For months, an estimated 150,000 U.S.-bound migrants have been bottled up in increasingly dire conditions in Tapachula, as ever more arrive there from South and Central America. In fact, the true number massing in southern Mexico may even be in the hundreds of thousands.
I've visited Tapachula at least five times over the last decade and I've never seen it so crowded. All the hotels and motels are packed. Immigrant shelters are at full capacity. Those who cannot afford accommodations – including women and children – sleep on the streets and in city parks, packed in like sardines.
Remember this as you hear Vice President Kamala Harris tout new statistics showing a precipitous decline in the number of illegal U.S. border crossings in 2024. She attributes the positive change to the recent enforcement of U.S. asylum laws. But that's not the full story.
Even the Department of Homeland Security admitted earlier this month that the drop in illegal US border crossings is due, in part, to, 'increased Mexican enforcement efforts.'
Indeed, at the White House's behest, Mexico has been containing these people for months in southern cities like Tapachula and Villahermosa, which have come to resemble sprawling, open-air refugee camps. Now the situation is becoming untenable.
According to those I've spoken to, the Mexican government's promises to provide travel documents to the migrants have never materialized.
In an apparent recognition of the overcrowding, the U.S. government is now building a new migration processing facility in Tapachula. Meanwhile, the Mexican government is starting to transfer migrants out of Tapachula into surrounding cities to relieve the growing pressure.
And, the coming election is only heightening tensions.
A group of Ghanaian men in a congested park in Tapachula told me that they feared a Trump presidency.
'We do not like Donald Trump, because he don't like us,' one man said. To him, Kamala Harris is the preferred option.
Another Ghanian man said he plans to wait for the results of the election, before making his next move: 'If after election day [Harris is elected], we know that everything is good, then we can enter.'
A middle-aged Venezuelan man also in the park reiterated those fears: 'We know that if Donald Trump wins, all the migrants will be kicked out the [United States]… we hope that he doesn't win.'
It is still unclear how far north these migrant caravans will get before America votes – and I suspect that many migrants only wish to escape Tapachula. But, certainly, it seems likely that after November 5 – Mexico's newly-elected president will consider her country's part in 'Operation Carousel' to be complete and lift any remaining immigration controls. That would mean hundreds of thousands of migrants, who have been waiting out the U.S. election in Mexico, may be permitted to – once again – try their luck at crossing illegally into the U.S.
[IsraelTimes] A senior member of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzouk, has arrived in Moscow on a planned visit, Russian state-run news agency RIA Novosti reports, citing a diplomatic source.
Hamas politburo member Abu Marzouk intends to hold a series of meetings with Russian officials, RIA says, without providing any further details.
Russia has ties to all key players in the Middle East, including Israel, Iran, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.
Moscow has repeatedly blamed the current crisis in the Middle East on the failure of US diplomacy, and called for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and the resumption of talks aimed at finding a peace settlement.
[IsraelTimes] An Iranian hacking group is actively scouting US election-related websites and American media outlets as election day nears, according to a Microsoft blog. Researchers say the activity suggests "preparations for more direct influence operations."
The hackers — dubbed Cotton Sandstorm by Microsoft and linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — performed reconnaissance and limited probing of multiple "election-related websites" in several unnamed swing states, the report notes. In May, they also scanned an unidentified US news outlet to understand its vulnerabilities.
"Cotton Sandstorm will increase its activity as the election nears given the group’s operational tempo and history of election interference," researchers write. The development is particularly concerning because of the group’s past efforts.
A spokesperson for Iran’s mission to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... says that "such allegations are fundamentally unfounded, and wholly inadmissible."
"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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... neither has any motive nor intent to interfere in the US election," they add.
In 2020, Cotton Sandstorm launched a different cyber-enabled influence operation shortly before the last presidential election. Posing as the right-wing "Proud Boys," the hackers sent thousands of emails to Florida residents, threatening them to "vote for Trump or else!"
The group also released a video on social media, purporting to come from hacktivists, where they showed them probing an election system. While that operation never affected individual voting systems, the goal was to cause chaos, confusion and doubt, senior US officials said at the time.
Following the 2020 election, Cotton Sandstorm also ran a separate operation that encouraged violence against US election officials who had denied claims of widespread voter fraud, Microsoft said.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which is coordinating the federal effort to defend the election from foreign influence, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
[IsraelTimes] Suspects aged 19-23, almost all of them Israeli citizens, are accused of plotting to assassinate an Israeli nuclear scientist as well as a city mayor
Prosecutors indicted seven East Jerusalem residents on Wednesday on suspicion of spying for Tehran and plotting attacks in Israel, detailing the allegations against the fifth alleged Iranian espionage plot busted in Israel in just over a month.
The suspects, all men aged 19 to 23 from the capital’s Beit Safafa neighborhood without previous criminal or security-related records, were pursuing the liquidation of an Israeli nuclear scientist as well as the mayor of a major city in central Israel, authorities had said in a statement on Tuesday.
Six of the suspects are Israeli citizens, and the other is a permanent resident. The leader of the ring, a 23-year-old named Rami Alian, was recruited by an Iranian agent, and Alian then recruited the other six members, authorities said.
The suspects "worked as an organized cell, in which each of them had a defined role," a security official said, adding that the suspects knew each other from their neighborhood, and had personal relationships that helped them coordinate their activities.
According to the indictment, the Iranian agent contacted Alian via Telegram and presented himself as a 38-year-old working for the Iranian intelligence ministry.
Alian, alongside friends he recruited, performed various tasks requested by the Iranian agent for payment, including setting two cars on fire in exchange for NIS 2,000 ($500) in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem neighborhood and putting up posters in the capital calling for the release of hostages in exchange for NIS 90 ($24) per poster.
In other cases, Alian and his partners attempted to fool the agent to think they’d performed the tasks he’d asked of them. One case saw Alian burying a grenade at a designated location but later retrieving it; another saw the group pretend to attack an Israeli soldier’s home by filming themselves throwing a stun grenade at a Paleostinian home in the West Bank. The indictment also says Alian acquired a fake police license plate in order to stage an attack on a police car.
The fake police license plate was discovered during a search of the suspects’ homes upon their arrest, alongside some NIS 50,000 ($13,000) and 10 credit cards.
In total, prosecutors say Alian converted cryptocurrency worth some NIS 26,000 ($7,000) into cash throughout his contact with the Iranian agent.
The most serious accusation in the indictment regards a plot to assassinate an Israeli nuclear scientist. In preparation for the liquidation, Alian’s cell was sent to photograph the Weizmann Institute late at night in exchange for 5,000 NIS ($1,300). They allegedly did so only from the outside, after security prevented their entrance into the campus.
Alian was ultimately given a photo and the address of the scientist the Islamic Theocratic Republic wanted him to assassinate, and was told he would be paid NIS 200,000 ($53,000) if he succeeded, authorities said.
He allegedly began preparations for the act, gathering information about the target, including his daily habits and other personal information, but the cell was arrested before the plot could move forward.
The suspects are being tried on charges of assisting the enemy during wartime, contacting a foreign agent, providing information to the enemy, conspiracy to commit terror-related murder, using a weapon for purposes of terrorism, arson, and obstruction of justice.
Police said Alian told Sherlocks he was aware he was working for Iranians and wanted to harm national security, citing 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 a rusty 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... . "I feel proud that an Iranian turned to me," he allegedly said.
This would seem to mark the first case of the recently uncovered spy rings to be motivated by a nationalist ideology, rather than solely by the financial rewards offered in exchange for the missions — though details on all cases remain limited.
The charges say the members of the alleged ring contacted their Iranian handlers directly. "They weren’t helped by a Ottoman Turkish intermediary, as was the case in previous instances; rather, they used different means which we can’t share," a senior police official said.
The investigation into the ring began in September, and police arrested the suspects on September 19. Prosecutors requested the suspects remain in detention throughout their trial.
The Shin Bet in recent months announced a series of alleged Iranian plots. In some of the cases, Iranians tried to trick Israelis online into carrying out missions. In January, authorities uncovered a scheme involving Israelis who were allegedly recruited to gather intelligence on high-profile figures.
In September, a man from the southern city of Ashkelon was arrested on allegations that he was smuggled into 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... twice and received payment to carry out missions on behalf of Tehran, and was recruited to assassinate either Israel’s prime minister, defense minister, or the head of the Shin Bet.
Then, on October 14, a man and his 18-year-old partner, both from Ramat Gan, were arrested on charges they carried out various acts of sabotage and vandalism on behalf of an Iranian agent.
On October 16, the Israel Police and State Attorney’s Office announced the arrest of a man from central Israel who allegedly acquired a weapon in order to kill an Israeli scientist on instructions from an Iranian agent, after performing several smaller tasks on the agent’s behalf.
And on Monday, it was announced that seven Israeli citizens, Jewish immigrants colonists from Azerbaijan, had been arrested last month on suspicion of spying for Iran for as long as two years, carrying out hundreds of tasks at the behest of the Islamic Theocratic Republic, motivated by a financial payout of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The suspects were accused of photographing and collecting information on IDF bases and facilities, including the Kirya defense headquarters in Tel Aviv and the Nevatim and Ramat David air bases, which have been targeted by Iran and Hezbollah since the outbreak of the war last year.
The suspects announced Monday were also accused of gathering information on Iron Dome batteries, ports and energy infrastructure, including the power plant in Hadera, and allegedly received maps of strategic sites from their handlers.
[IsraelTimes] Army shares personnel spreadsheets, lists of training courses and salary papers uncovered in Strip; Qatari network blasts ‘fabricated accusations’ against employees
The IDF said Wednesday it had uncovered documents 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 a rusty 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 that show six active Al Jazeeranews hounds are operatives in the Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... and 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... terror groups.
The journalists were named by the IDF as Anas al-Sharif, Alaa Salameh, Hossam Shabat, Ashraf al-Sarraj, Ismail Abu Omar and Talal al-Arrouqi.
According to the IDF, al-Sharif has served as head of a rocket launching squad and a member of a Nukhba Force company in Hamas’s Nuseirat Battalion; Salameh as the deputy head of the Shaboura Battalion’s propaganda unit in Islamic Jihad; Shabat as a sniper in Hamas’s Beit Hanoun Battalion; al-Sarraj as a member of Islamic Jihad’s Bureij Battalion; Abu Omar as a training company commander in the East Khan Younis Battalion (and was maimed in an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... several months ago); and al-Arrouqi as a team commander in Hamas’s Nuseirat Battalion.
The military released the documents it said showed personnel spreadsheets, lists of training courses, telephone books and salary documents.
It said the documents "unequivocally prove" that the journalists functioned as members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s respective military wings.
"These documents are proof of the involvement of Hamas forces of Evil in the 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... i media network, al-Jazeera," the IDF said.
It added that the named journalists are "spearheading" the spread of Hamas propaganda on Al Jazeera, especially in the northern Gaza Strip.
In a response, the network said it "views these fabricated accusations as a blatant attempt to silence the few remaining journalists in the region, thereby obscuring the harsh realities of the war from audiences worldwide."
According to the station, "These baseless claims follow Al Jazeera’s recent exposé of potential war crimes committed by Israeli forces during the ongoing war on Gaza. These journalists have been steadfastly reporting from northern Gaza, with Al Jazeera being the sole international media presence documenting the unfolding humanitarian crisis resulting from Israel’s siege and bombardment of civilian populations."
In January, Israel said an Al Jazeera staff journalist and a freelancer killed in an airstrike in Gaza were terror operatives.
The following month, it accused another journalist with the channel, who was maimed in a separate strike, of being a deputy company commander with Hamas.
Al Jazeera has fiercely denied No, no! Certainly not! Israel’s allegations and accused it of systematically targeting Al Jazeera employees in the Gaza Strip.
In April, the government passed an emergency law to take the network off the air and block its broadcasts for violating national security. Courts have upheld the legislation, citing confidential information.
In June, a court found that there is a direct and causal connection between individuals who have carried out terror attacks inside Israel and the consumption of Al Jazeera content. It also determined that there was a "close connection" between Al Jazeera and Hamas, that some Al Jazeera news hounds in Gaza had turned themselves into "assistants and partners" with Hamas, and that some of them had even carried out terror attacks.
Last month, Israel’s Government Press Office announced that it was revoking the press cards of Al Jazeera journalists working in Israel.
Though Israeli officials have long complained about Al Jazeera’s coverage, which they say is heavily influenced by Hamas and endangers IDF troops in Gaza, in the past they stopped short of taking action. Qatar bankrolled Paleostinian construction projects in the Gaza Strip prior to the war, which were seen by all sides as a means of staving off conflict.
[IsraelTimes] GOP candidate tells campaign rally ‘we have a very good relationship,’ days after saying the PM phoned because he ‘wants my view on things’.
As Hezbollah increases its attacks, Israel prepares to deploy the Iron Beam developed by Rafael. The system is expected to become operational in early 2025, and it should dramatically streamline the interception of rockets and UAVs launched at Israel. pic.twitter.com/Qu6aE5ppMh
[IsraelTimes] National Security Council advises travelers to leave Arugam Bay area, or at least retreat to capital city, shortly after US embassy also warns of credible info on imminent attack
The National Security Council called on Israelis Wednesday to leave Sri Lanka’s Arugam Bay area and other beaches in the island’s south and west immediately, citing terrorism threats.
"Those leaving these areas are advised to leave the country or at least to the capital Colombo, where there is a high presence of local security forces," said the NSC.
Israelis should postpone travel to the rest of the country, the warning continued. They were also urged to hide signs that indicate they are Israelis and avoid gathering in large numbers.
Israel said it was in close contact with Sri Lankan authorities.
The US Embassy in Sri Lanka said earlier it had "received credible information warning of an attack targeting popular tourist locations" in eastern Arugam Bay, prompting the island nation’s police to pledge more security for tourists.
The warnings came after social media posts called for a boycott of Israeli-owned businesses in the area.
Protests by local Moslem groups against Israel’s war against Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... 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 a rusty 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 Hezbollah in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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... have drawn support from the wider community in the predominantly Buddhist South Asian nation.
Israelis accounted for less than 1.5 percent of the 1.5 million tourists who visited the island in the first nine months of this year — or around 20,000 people altogether.
But Arugam Bay, a hotspot for surfing around 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Colombo by road, is a popular destination for Israeli tourists.
Following the US embassy warning, local police said they were unveiling a new security plan to protect tourists.
"In view of the war situation in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, the police together with intelligence agencies are working on a plan to protect tourists and resorts," they said in a statement.
It did not give details, but said a hotline had been established for tourists to alert authorities of any safety concerns.
There have been no attacks in Sri Lanka since the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people, including 45 foreign nationals.
The coordinated attack against three luxury hotels and three churches was blamed on a local jihadist group that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
Tourism numbers fell sharply afterwards, and took another hit during a 2022 economic meltdown that precipitated widespread civil unrest.
But foreign visitor numbers have picked up after an International Monetary Fund bailout last year helped stabilize the economy.
Israel has issued travel warnings to several countries amid rising antisemitism and a surge in alerts of potential terror attacks targeting Jews and Israelis since the October 7 massacre.
[IsraelTimes] Two people have been arrested in Sri Lanka amid terror threats against Israelis in Arugam Bay area and other beaches in the island’s south and west, local media report.
Sri Lanka’s Daily Mirror, citing police sources, says that the Terrorism Investigation Division arrested two Sri Lankan nationals, including one who was based in Iraq.
Based in Iraq? How odd. Sounds like ISIS…
It says details on the two had been supplied by the intelligence service in neighboring India.
[IsraelTimes] The war between Israel and terror group Hezbollah is expected to wipe 9 percent off Leb’s national wealth as measured by GDP, the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... says, with the scale of hostilities and the economic fallout set to surpass the last war in 2006.
The UN Development Program’s rapid appraisal of the conflict’s impact on Lebanon’s gross domestic product was released a day ahead of a summit hosted by La Belle France to help drum up international support for Lebanon.
UNDP says it expected the conflict to last until the end of 2024, leading to a 30% jump in the government’s financing needs in a country in dire straits even before violence began.
"GDP is projected to decline by 9.2% compared to a no-war scenario, indicating a significant decline in economic activity as a direct consequence of the conflict (around 2 billion dollars)," the report says.
UNDP says that even if the war ended in 2024, the consequences would persist for years, with GDP likely to contract by 2.28% in 2025 and 2.43% in 2026.
Lebanon was already suffering a four-year-old economic downturn and a political crisis when Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel last year in support of its Paleostinian ally Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... In late September, Israel dramatically ramped up its bombing across Lebanon, with strikes now regularly hitting Beirut’s southern suburbs, major cities in southern Lebanon and parts of the eastern Bekaa Valley, including the border with Syria.
Hezbollah and Israel last fought in 2006, when a month-long conflict left much of Lebanon’s south and the capital’s southern suburbs in ruins and required international help to rebuild.
UNDP says the damage to physical infrastructure, housing and productive capacities like factories would likely be close to that estimated for the 2006 war, which was between $2.5 billion and $3.6 billion. But it warned of larger overall damage to Lebanon.
"The scale of the military engagement, the geopolitical context, the humanitarian impact and the economic fallout in 2024 are expected to be much greater than in 2006," it says.
UNDP’s report says the closure of border crossings critical for trade would bring a 21% drop in trade activities, and that it expected job losses in the tourism, agriculture and construction sectors.
It says Lebanon had already sustained "massive environmental losses" over the last year, including due to unwent kaboom! ordnance and contamination from possibly hazardous material, particularly the use of white phosphorus across southern Lebanon.
Government revenue is expected to fall by 9% and total investment by more than 6% through both 2025 and 2026.
As a result, increased international assistance will be essential for sustainable recovery in Lebanon, UNDP says — not only to address the spike in humanitarian needs but to stem the long-term social and economic consequences of the conflict.
Lebanon’s minister in charge of its crisis response tells Rooters that the country needed $250 million a month to help more than 1.2 million people displaced by Israeli strikes.
[IsraelTimes] US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says that he has not seen evidence that there was a Hezbollah bunker filled with cash built under a hospital in Beirut,
..no doubt…
adding that Washington would continue to work with Israel to get better insights.
Good luck with that. Did you ask politely? How about nicely?
Israel's gonna trust them with classified information? Right. Sure.
Israel’s military said that Hezbollah has stashed hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold in a bunker built under a hospital in Beirut, adding that it would not strike the facility as it keeps up attacks against the group’s financial assets.
“We have not seen evidence of that at this moment. But, you know, we will continue to collaborate with our Israeli counterparts to gain better fidelity on exactly what they are looking at,” Austin tells reporters in Rome.
Fadi Alameh, a Lebanese lawmaker with the Shi’ite Amal Movement party and the director of the hospital in question, Al-Sahel, has told Reuters that Israel was making false and slanderous claims and called on the Lebanese Army to visit and show it had only operating rooms, patients and a morgue.
#1
Fadi Alameh, a Lebanese lawmaker with the Shi’ite Amal Movement.
Moderator: "How can you tell when a Shi'ia is lying?"
Chorus: "His lips are moving."
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Deputy Head of the Higher Islamic Shia Council in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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... , Sheikh Ali al-Khatib, stressed that the Resistance® is assuming its responsibilities and defending the entire country against the Zionist aggression amid the reluctance of the Lebanese government in this regard since 1947.
In an interview with al-Manar Channel held at the historical headquarters of the Shia Council in Hazmieh, Sheikh al-Khatib affirmed that some Lebanese parties blame the Resistance®, despite all its sacrifices for the sake of Lebanon, and provide the Zionist war with a political coverage whether intentionally or unintentionally.
Those parties always reflect defeat and weakness because they know the Israeli ambitions in Lebanon, yet ignore them, his eminence said, advising them to support the Resistance® which would emerge from the battlefield victorious.
The interview, conducted by the Director of al-Manar Website Diaa Abu Taam, also tackled the spiritual summit that was held at the headquarters of the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkirki as Sheikh Khatib indicated that the summit reflected the national solidarity and support for the resistance.
DIRECTOR OF AL-MANAR WEBSITE DIAA ABU TAAM
Sheikh Khatib emphasized that holding the presidential elections amid the Zionist war in Lebanon would debilitate the legitimacy of the new president and expose him to future suspicions.
The resistance movements in Lebanon and Paleostine managed to expose the failures of the international regime, underlining the inability of the international organizations amid the US support for the Zionist entity, according to Sheikh Khatib.
Sheikh Khatib hailed the unprecedented steadfastness of the people displaced from their homes due to the Zionist aggression, appreciating the role of the Lebanese community which hosted them.
His eminence narrated his company with the martyred leader Sayyed ...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged... Hasan Nasrallah during their seminary studies in Holy al-Najaf in the mid-seventies, stressing that Sayyed Nasrallah won in his lifetime and the hereafter.
"We are the ones who have lost him."
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...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 
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..always the voice of sweet reason...
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