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Joint military force from Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon says it has killed more than 100 insurgents
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan death toll in 'Pakistan strikes' rises to at least 47, Talib gov’t warns Pakistan of consequences
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] The corpse count from Pak military Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in the eastern Afghanistan provinces of Khost and Kunar has risen to at least 47, officials said on Sunday.

"Forty-one civilians, mainly women, and children, were killed and 22 others were maimed in airstrikes by Pak forces near the Durand line in Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
," Shabir Ahmad Osmani, director of information and culture in Khost told AFP about the strikes that took place on Saturday.

Two other officials confirmed the corpse count in Khost, while an Afghan official said on Saturday six people were killed in Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
The Pak military has so far not offered any comment on the strikes, but on Sunday the foreign ministry in Islamabad urged the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
authorities in Kabul to take "stern actions" against holy warriors launching attacks against Pakistain from Afghan soil.

Border tensions between Pakistain and Afghanistan have risen since the Taliban seized power last year, with Islamabad claiming turban groups are carrying out regular attacks from Afghan soil.

The Taliban deny harboring Pak holy warriors but are also infuriated by a fence Islamabad is erecting along their 2,700-kilometre (1,600-mile) border.

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
authorities warned Pakistain on Saturday after five children and a woman were killed in Afghanistan in alleged rocket attacks by the Pak forces in a pre-dawn assault along the border.

"The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan condemns in the strongest possible terms the bombardment and attack that has taken place from the Pakistain side on the soil of Afghanistan," government front man Zabihullah Mujahid told news hounds in an audio message.

"This is a cruelty and it is paving the way for enmity between Afghanistan and Pakistain ... We are using all options to prevent repetitions (of such attacks) and calling for our illusory sovereignty to be respected," he said.

"The Pak side should know that if a war starts it will not be in the interest of any side. It will cause instability in the region."

Pak military officials were not immediately available for comment.
Would these be the same Pak military officials who officered the Talib Reconquista last year, as the Americans withdrew?
Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Tablighi Jamaat

#1  POPCORN, GET YOUR POPCORN HERE!
Posted by: Chris || 04/18/2022 12:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Nobody hates a n*ggah like other n*ggahs.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/18/2022 12:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Let's you and him fight
Posted by: Frank G || 04/18/2022 13:17 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Joint military force from Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon says it has killed more than 100 insurgents
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

A joint military force from Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
said on Sunday it had killed more than 100 Death Eaters, including 10 commanders, in the past few weeks, as it intensifies a ground and air offensive in the Lake Chad region.

Boko Haram
...not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
fighters and its splinter 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....
West Africa Province (ISWAP) group have for more than a decade battled the Nigerian army in a conflict that has sucked in neighboring states.

Multinational Joint Task Force front man Colonel Muhammad Dole said troops had ventured deep into enclaves controlled by hard boyz in the Lake Chad area and recovered several weapons, food and illicit drugs.

"Within the period of this operation, well over a hundred faceless myrmidons have been neutralized, including over 10 top commanders ... following intelligence-driven lethal air strikes in the Lake Chad islands by the combined air task-forces," Dole said.

Dole did not give the period covered by the operation or number of troops killed but said 18 soldiers were maimed by improvised bombs planted by retreating Death Eaters.

The insurgency is concentrated in the northeast of Nigeria and has left thousands dead while driving millions from their homes into camps for internally displaced persons.

Nigeria received a boost after the United States last week approved a nearly $1 billion weapons sale. US politicians had put a hold on the deal over concerns about possible human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
abuses by the Nigerian government.

Boko Haram has been on the back foot since the death of its leader, Abubakar Shekau
...the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down. Last seen in 2017, sneaking into Cameroon while wearing a burka...
, last year in May during a battle with rival ISWAP. Nigeria says thousands of Boko Haram fighters and their families have surrendered since last year.



Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: ISWAP


Europe
Dozens arrested at Sweden riots sparked by planned Quran burnings
[BBC] More than 40 people have been arrested after violent clashes in Sweden between police and people angry at plans by a far-right group to burn copies of the Quran.

Three people were injured in Norrkoping on Sunday when officers fired warning shots at rioters, police said.

The violence was sparked by a series of rallies organised by the Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan.

He says he has burned a copy of Islam's holy book and wants to do so again.

Muslims consider the Quran the sacred word of God and view any intentional damage or show of disrespect towards it as deeply offensive.

Saudi Arabia has condemned what it called the "deliberate abuse of the holy Quran by some extremists in Sweden, and provocation and incitement against Muslims".

Iran and Iraq earlier summoned the Swedish ambassadors to lodge protests.

Sweden's national police chief, Anders Thornberg, said he had never seen such violent riots following Sunday's clashes in Norrkoping, which is about 160km (99 miles) south-west of Stockholm, and nearby Linkoping.

The two cites also witnessed riots on Friday, along with the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby and the western city of Orebro. On Saturday, there was a riot in the southern city of Malmo.

On Monday, police said 26 police officers and 14 members of the public had been injured in the violence and that more than 20 vehicles had been damaged or destroyed.

They said that around 200 people had been involved in the violence, adding they believed it was organised by networks of criminal gangs. Some of the individuals are already known to police and Sweden's security service, Sapo.

Sunday's violence in Norrkoping came after Rasmus Paludan said he planned to hold a rally there. However, he never showed up in the city.

In a statement posted by his far-right, anti-immigrant Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party, Paludan said he cancelled the rally because Swedish authorities had "shown that they are completely incapable of protecting themselves and me".

He had earlier appeared on Thursday in the central city of Jonkoping, but as he talked into a megaphone while holding a Quran, his words were drowned out by a priest ringing the bells of a local church in protest.

Protests against plans by Stram Kurs to burn the Quran have turned violent in Sweden before. In 2020, protesters set cars on fire and shop fronts were damaged in clashes in Malmö.

Paludan represented Stram Kurs party in the last Danish elections in 2019, where it received 1.8 % of the vote, failing to win a seat.

In 2020, he was jailed in Denmark for a month for a string of offences including racism.

He plans to stand in Swedish elections in September, but he reportedly does not yet have the necessary number of signatures to secure his candidature.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/18/2022 07:50 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  Belgium expels Danish right-wing activists over plot to burn Koran
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/18/2022 7:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Three people injured in riots in Sweden
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/18/2022 8:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Pörtlånd
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/18/2022 8:08 Comments || Top||


#5  The Koran -- the book venerated by so many illiterate that the traditional ordering of its volumes is by size rather than temporal order.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/18/2022 14:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Porkoranimals.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/18/2022 14:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Should burn a Koran in front of any Muslim that wants to move to the west. Then accept or deny them depending upon the response.

Burn other Holy books at the same time if necessary to make the point the Koran isn't targeted, but it's not special under the law either.
Posted by: ruprecht || 04/18/2022 15:45 Comments || Top||

#8  So they idolize the book, but destroy other idols?
Posted by: Bobby || 04/18/2022 15:45 Comments || Top||

#9  These same right wing nut jobs would go absolutely crazy if Muslims burned Bibles.

I am no fan of any religion.
None of them are peaceful nor tolerant.
Posted by: Chuque Barnsmell6454 || 04/18/2022 21:48 Comments || Top||

#10  PS:
If you have the same beliefs and hate towards Muslims as Neo Nazi's do, you may just be a Neo Nazi and not realize it.
Posted by: Chuque Barnsmell6454 || 04/18/2022 21:50 Comments || Top||


Greek police: Migrant shot dead while crossing from Turkey
[AlAhram] A migrant was killed by gunfire at the Greece-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
border while she and several others attempted to cross a river separating the two countries, Greek police said Sunday.

It wasn't immediately clear who fired the shot that killed the woman on Saturday night. An autopsy showed that the victim was shot in the back with a small-caliber weapon.

Greek police were patrolling the area where the Evros River, which is called Meric in Ottoman Turkish, narrows to about 60 to 70 meters (around 200 feet) wide and through which many migrants colonists attempt to cross, according to a police statement and additional information provided to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named by a police officer on condition of anonymity. The officers spotted numerous migrants colonists on the Ottoman Turkish side shortly before 9 p.m.

Police said 11 people embarked on an inflatable dinghy, and officers directed flashlights at the boat and started shouting ``Police. Go back.'' In response, said the police officer, a ``barrage'' of shots erupted from the Ottoman Turkish side. The Greek police patrol couldn't detect the source of the shots in the darkness and fell to the ground to protect themselves, shooting warning shots in the air, according to the statement which the officer corroborated.

The dinghy came close to the Greek shore and five people disembarked _ four made it to the shore while a fifth person was seen floating in the water. Police reached the body with some difficulty, according to the statement, and when they pulled it to the shore they determined that it belonged to a woman and that she was dead.

Police questioned the four survivors _ three Pak males, one of them a minor (17 years old), and a woman from Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
. It wasn't known what happened to the other six people who tried to cross, but authorities don't believe they entered Greece.

Coroner Pavlos Pavlidis, who performed the autopsy on the woman in the northeastern city of Alexandroupolis, told the AP that the victim was between the ages of 20 and 25 and that she was most likely from one of the Horn of Africa countries.

She had a wound ``in the upper right (back) area. She was shot from close distance and died almost instantly from post-hemorrhagic (blood loss) shock,`` Pavlidis said.
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#1  HEY, Mayorkas!
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/18/2022 8:45 Comments || Top||


New Clashes Over Anti-Immigration Rally In Sweden
Yesterday in Orebro, today Malmo.
[NATION.PK] Plans by a far-right group to publicly burn copies of the Koran sparked violent mostly peaceful festivities with counter-demonstrators for the third day running in Sweden, police said on Sunday.

Litter bins, a bus and a car were all set on fire in a series of incidents in the southern city of Malmo overnight, police said in a statement.

"The situation calmed down towards 3:00 am (0100 GMT)," police spokeswoman Kim Hild told SR public radio, adding that no officers were hurt, but a number of members of the public were slightly injured. Nearly 20 complaints had been filed, including for vandalism.

There have been similar festivities in recent days over plans by the anti-immigration and anti-Islamic Stram Kurs (Hard Line) movement led by Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan to burn copies of the Koran in public.

The festivities on Saturday broke out after a rally by the group’s supporters on Saturday. Three coppers had to be taken to hospital after a riot broke out in the city of Linkoping in eastern Sweden on Thursday. Two people were arrested at that protest.

And on Friday, nine coppers were maimed in similar festivities in Orebro in central Sweden.

In the wake of the string of incidents, Iraq’s foreign ministry said that it had summoned the Swedish charge d’affaires in Baghdad on Sunday.
Why Iraq instead of any of the other Muslim countries in the world?
It warned that the affair could have "serious repercussions" on "relations between Sweden and Moslems in general, both Moslem and Arab countries and Moslem communities in Europe."

Paludan plans to hold further rallies at two other cities in Sweden, but the demonstrations have not received the go-ahead by police.
Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


India-Pakistan
Two Banned TTP Terrorists Killed In DI Khan Operation
[NATION.PK] Intelligence agencies and Pakistain army conducted a joint operation on Sunday and killed two most wanted faceless myrmidons of banned Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Pakistain (TTP) in Kolachi area of Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
According to credible reports, the terrorists, identified as Khalil and Ehsan alias Deva were killed. Khalil was an expert in making suicide jackets and improvised bombs.

In addition, the killed terrorist were involved in in various acts of terrorism, including the April 11 martyrdom of five coppers, attacks on a polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
team, IED attacks, and extortion.

Two machine guns used by the faceless myrmidons and four grenades were also recovered from the possession of killed terrorists.
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Indian police have arrested 14 people in connection with the violent clashes between Hindus and Muslims
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Kokernag: Operation called off as militants flee
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Militants gave the slip to a joint team of police and army during a shootout in which a soldier was killed in south Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
’s Anantnag district, a report said on Sunday.

The Army soldier of 19 RR was killed in the initial phase of the encounter which broke out in Watnar Kokernag area of district on Saturday afternoon.

Quoting officials, news agency GNS reported that a joint team of Police and army had launched a cordon and search operation in the area following inputs about the presence of holy warriors.

As the joint team approached towards the suspected spot, the hiding holy warriors fired upon them, triggering off the shootout, an official said.

After initial exchange of the fire, no fresh contact with holy warriors was established even as searches continued till early this morning, the official said.

A police officer told GNS that the operation has now been called off as holy warriors managed to flee "either initially or when the night took full effect."

Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


SIA conducts raids at several locations in Srinagar
[GREATERKASHMIR] The State Investigation Agency (SIA), assigned with the duty of investigation and prosecution of terror related cases in Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, conducted searches at several locations in Srinagar on Sunday, officials said.

In a statement, a front man of the SIA said the searches were conducted in connection with FIR No. 01/2022 u/s 13, 18 UA(P) Act read with sections 121, 124, 153 B and 120-B IPC of Police Station JIC (SIA) Jammu, against the author of seditious article Abdul Aala Fazili and the Editor and other associates of monthly digital Magazine "The Kashmir Wala".

The article titled "The shackles of slavery will break" written by Abdul Aala Fazili and published in the Monthly Digital Magazine "The Kashmir Wala" on the one hand is highly provocative, seditious and intended to create unrest in Jammu and Kashmir, written with the purpose of abetting the youth to take the path of violence by glorifying terrorism, he said. "...and on the other the write-up promoted and propagated the false narrative, which is essential to sustain secessionist cum terrorist campaign aimed at breaking the territorial integrity of India."
Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Iraq
Suspected ISIS attack injures Iraqi soldier in Salahaddin
[Rudaw] One Iraqi soldier was injured in a suspected 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....
(ISIS) attack on the Iraqi army in Salahaddin province on Sunday, an official told Rudaw.

The terror group allegedly attacked the force in Tuz Khurmatu’s Bastamli village at around 6:45 pm, Kawa Shekhani, Sakahaddin governor’s security and military advisor told Rudaw.

Shekhani added that the maimed soldier had been transferred to a hospital, and the situation was under control.

No group has grabbed credit for the attack yet.

The disputed territory of Salahaddin is often targeted by ISIS Death Eaters, which seized control of swathes of land in Iraq in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 but it continues to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions across several provinces. The terror group’s remnants are particularly active in parts of northern Iraq that are disputed between Erbil and Baghdad.

Major General Qaraman Kamal, vice chief of staff of Peshmerga forces, told Rudaw on Thursday the terror group has launched about 33 attacks in the disputed areas in the first three months of the year, killing at least 24 people and injuring over 20 more.

The terror group grabbed credit for an attack on a village in southern Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
saying they have killed at least three civilians and injured four others.

Iraqi and Kurdish forces often launch joint security operations to arrest ISIS suspects.

The Kurdish security forces on Wednesday announced the arrest of an ISIS leader believed to have executed two Peshmerga fighters.

On Monday, the Iraqi forces arrested an ISIS leader and several suspects of the terror group across Iraq.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/18/2022 02:34 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Turkey launches new air, ground operation against PKK
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
launched a new ground and air cross-border operation against suspected Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bases in Duhok province, the Ottoman Turkish defense minister announced early on Monday.

Ottoman Turkish jets and artillery struck PKK targets consisting of "shelters, bunkers, caves, tunnels, ammunition depots and a so-called headquarter belonging to the terrorist organization," Hulusi Akar said.

Dubbed Claw-Lock, the new operation is aimed at PKK hideouts in Metina, Zap and Avashin-Basyan areas, he added.

The PKK earlier on Monday claimed that "tens" of Ottoman Turkish helicopters targeted the PKK-entrenched Zap area as Ankara attempts "to land its troops there," reported media affiliated to the gang Roj News, adding that the helicopters were flying from bases within the Kurdistan Region.

"Until now, our operation continues successfully as planned. The targets set in the first phase have been achieved," Akar noted.

Ottoman Turkish warplanes heavily bombarded Kurdish villages in Duhok on Sunday, striking fear among the residents in the area. In a series of videos sent to Rudaw, jets can be heard flying over Shiladze town.

There are no reports of civilian casualties following the latest incursion.

Turkey has conducted numerous cross-border aerial and ground operations against the PKK over the past decade. In February, it launched the Winter Eagle operation against the gang in Shingal and Makhmour.

The latest offense came two days after Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani’s visit to Istanbul, where he met with the Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
on Friday.

Turkey has come under criticism from Baghdad, Erbil, Tehran, and the wider international community for violating Iraqi illusory sovereignty, but Ankara continues to establish increasing numbers of bases and outposts in the mountains of Erbil and Duhok provinces.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/18/2022 02:34 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Iraqi forces carry out an airdrop in Kirkuk
[SHAFAQ] The Security Media Cell revealed that the Iraqi Special Forces carried out an airdrop in an area hosting bully boyz in Kirkuk today.

The Cell said in a statement that the operation took place in al-Jal area, south of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
noting that the forces are currently locating the bully boyz to arrest them.

Entering al-Jal's rugged, remote areas by the security forces is very challenging, which prompted them to go with the airdrop option, according to the statement.
Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraqi F-16 target ISIS hideouts in Diyala
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The Security Media Cell revealed that Iraqi F-16 targeted ISIS hideouts in Diyala today.

The Cell said in a statement that three Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s targeted Nareen area, according to accurate intelligence information provided by the National Security Agency.
Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Video shows Orthodox Jews assaulted in Old City while on way to the Western Wall
[IsraelTimes] Driver of bus attacked by Paleostinian stone-throwers in separate incident says it could have ended in tragedy, calls on transportation minister to protect drivers

A small group of ultra-Orthodox Jews was attacked on Sunday morning while walking through Jerusalem’s Old City.

Security camera footage showed the three men, wrapped in their prayer shawls (talliot), making their way to prayers at the Western Wall.
Continued on Page 49
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#1 
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More Palestinians injured as Israeli forces, settlers raid Aqsa Mosque
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] At least 19 Paleostinians have been injured in festivities as Israeli settlers stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds under the protection of Israeli military forces, in the latest act of provocation against the sacred site.

The settlers entered the compound on Sunday morning amid a heavy military deployment of Israeli soldiers to mark the Passover holiday and perform Talmudic prayers.

The Jewish religious occasion coincides with the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan at a time when thousands of Moslems, predominantly Paleostinians, usually stay at the holy site for worship day and night.

Videos circulating online showed Paleostinians throwing rocks and firecrackers and Israeli forces firing tear gas and stun grenades.

The Paleostine Red Islamic Thingy Society (PRCS) said its medics treated at least 17 injuries following the Israeli raid on the holy site, of whom three were admitted to hospital.

The official Paleostinian Wafa news agency reported that the attacking Israeli forces chased the worshipers and fired stun grenades and teargas randomly to empty the holy site of its Moslem worshipers in order to allow the entry of settlers wishing to celebrate Passover inside the courtyards of the al-Aqsa Mosque.

At least three arrests were reported among the Paleostinian worshipers.

Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, issues strongly worded statement in support of al-Aqsa Mosque

In a statement, 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...
-based Hamas resistance movement warned Israel against the repercussions of its atrocities in al-Aqsa Mosque.

"Al-Aqsa Mosque is a red line and the occupying Israeli regime is responsible for assaults on worshipers and allowing occupiers to desecrate the site. We hold Israel responsible for attacks against worshipers inside al-Aqsa Mosque and the inevitable consequences," Hamas also said in a statement.

The statement noted that the Tel Aviv regime’s decision to give Israeli settlers a free hand to attack the al-Aqsa Mosque and desecrate its shrines will unavoidably hurt the feelings of all Paleostinians, Arabs as well as Moslems, and will provoke their wrath.
Just look at their feet: The ‘defenders’ of Al-Aqsa are desecrating it
Tens of thousands of Palestinians dispersed peacefully on Friday afternoon after prayers in Jerusalem. The hundreds who clashed with police earlier, by contrast, had come to fight.

Just look at their feet: The ‘defenders’ of Al-Aqsa are desecrating it

[IsraelTimes] Tens of thousands of Paleostinians dispersed peacefully on Friday afternoon after prayers in Jerusalem. The hundreds who clashed with police earlier, by contrast, had come to fight.
Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority



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Turkish forces bombard Syria's Hasakah countryside
[NPASYRIA] On Sunday evening, the Ottoman Turkish forces renewed targeting the countryside of Tel Tamr, north of Hasakah, northeast Syria, with heavy weapons.

"The Ottoman Turkish forces bombed the Assyrian villages of Tel Shanan, al-Dardara, and Qubour al-Qarajneh, east and north of Tel Tamr town, with artillery and mortar shells," a source in the Tel Tamr Military Council said.

Several shells fell near the Russian base, north of the town, according to the source.

The bombing resulted in only material damage to the residents’ property, the source added.

The countryside of Tel Tamr has been hit with heavy weapons by the Ottoman Turkish forces and the affiliated opposition factions for days.
Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte



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