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Africa Horn
Over 20 killed in anti-Muslim attack in Ethiopia: Islamic group
[Garowe] More than 20 people have been killed in an attack on Moslems in the northern Æthiopian city of Gondar during the funeral of a Moslem elder, a local Islamic group said on Wednesday.

The Islamic Affairs Council of Amhara, the region where Gondar is located, described Tuesday's attack at a cemetery as a "massacre" by heavily armed "extremist Christians."
Interesting. And what triggered local Christians to attack?
The attackers "fired a barrage of heavy machine guns and grenades... leaving many dead while others who were maimed have been taken to hospital," the religious body said.

"More than 20 have died due to yesterday's attack which also saw the looting of Moslem properties," it added.

The mayor of Gondar, Zewdu Malede, told Æthiopian public broadcaster EBC that the "incident was carried out by a few bad boy individuals."

"There has been some destruction and loss of lives from all sides," he said, without offering further details about the identity of the attackers or the victims.

"The situation was (brought) under control by 7:00 pm."

The cemetery where the attack occurred neighbours a mosque and church and has been the subject of an ongoing dispute between Moslems and Orthodox Christians, who are the dominant group in Æthiopia.

"Although ongoing wide-ranging measures have been taken to invade the... cemetery, the place has been historically at all times a Moslem cemetery," the Islamic Affairs Council said in its statement.

Tuesday's violence erupted like lava from a volcano as people clashed over using stones from the area for burial purposes, fighting over whether the materials were being taken from the cemetery or church compound, the Amhara regional government said in a statement.
It sounds like the Moslems raided Christian graves, which does tend to annoy friends and relations of the deceased...
The government described the dear departed Moslem elder as "a father to Gondar city residents, Gondar Christians, and Moslems as well as a father to all" and vowed to investigate the attack and hold the perpetrators accountable.

- 'BREAK PEOPLE'S UNITY -
"An effort has been made to break the people's unity in the historic city of Gondar, a symbol of co-existence and tolerance, by aiming to create conflict using religion as a guide," the government said.

A senior Moslem official in the capital Addis Ababa told AFP on condition of anonymity that "the attack was planned" and said the gunnies set fire to the mosque and the Koran.

The city's mayor said the attackers were snuffies who had sought "to burn down, to destroy, to destabilize and to loot Gondar."

"This in no way represents the Moslem and Christian communities," he added.

Moslems make up about one-third of Æthiopia's population of 110 million and are a small minority in Amhara, the country's second-most-populous region which is dominated by Orthodox Christians.

In 2019, multiple mosques were attacked in the town of Mota in Amhara, more than 350 kilometers (217 miles) north of Addis Ababa, in a wave of religious violence that sparked condemnation by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

Analysts caution that conflicts that appear to be rooted in religion in Æthiopia are often also shaped by disputes over land use, ethnicity, and other issues.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/28/2022 00:51 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can’t be Christians because they are like Repubs., you must forgive people who trespass against you!
Posted by: Papa Cooky || 04/28/2022 22:58 Comments || Top||

#2  you must forgive people who trespass against you!

Doesn't mean you can't shoot them first. Remember that when you ask What Would Jesus Do?, the answer might involve knocking over tables and chasing people with around with whips.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/28/2022 23:29 Comments || Top||

#3  you must forgive people who trespass against you!

Our Father who art in Heaven, Howitzer is thy name...
Posted by: badanov || 04/28/2022 23:51 Comments || Top||


Former Sudanese Sovereign Council member Mohamed al-Faki Suleiman has been released from detention
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Africa Subsaharan
Zamfara Government Deposes Two Emirs, One District Head Accused Of Working With Bandits
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 04/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Banditti

#1  I do like that hats. I don't think I could pull one off!
Posted by: Secret Master || 04/28/2022 0:35 Comments || Top||


Europe
Far-Left Antifa Riot in Multiple French Cities Following Macron Victory
[Breitbart] Far-left Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
holy warriors protested and rioted in multiple French cities following the election victory of President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, with festivities breaking out between police and Antifa bad boys.

Demonstrations and riots broke out in several French cities on Sunday night, following the announcement that President EmmanuelMmacron had secured victory in the second round of the French presidential elections, defeating rival Marine Le Pen.

In Gay Paree, several hundred people gathered at the Place du Châtelet before they were dispersed by police and then later gathered at the Place de la République, where they demonstrated against Macron, with one writing "Antifa" on the statue of the monument of the Republic, while others threw projectiles at police, La Belle Franceinfo reports.

Police made several attempts to charge protestors in order to disperse them and at least 12 people were arrested during the course of the evening, but no injuries were reported.

In Lyon, festivities broke out between far-left holy warriors and police shortly after the result of the election was announced, with holy warriors attacking the town hall of the 4th arrondissement, as well as attacking a cop shoppe and a local bank.

The French riot police, the CRS, were present at the scene and deployed tear gas on the holy warriors to disperse the crowd and carried out identity checks. At least one person was arrested.

Tensions were also reported in Rennes, Nantes, Marseilles, Strasbourg and Toulouse
...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France...
. In Rennes, around 250 holy warriors erupted into the streets and set fires, while also clashing with police. Seven people were arrested during the course of the rioting.

Rennes had seen rioting after the first round of the presidential election as well, with at least 500 holy warriors taking part in a riot that saw windows of local shops smashed, and graffiti calling for "social war."

In the centre of Nantes, 400 to 500 people gathered and marched behind a banner that called for a revolution in the country.

Antifa extremism remains a major issue in La Belle France, with the Macron government taking a major step prior to the election by banning a Lyon branch of the murderous Moslem group over calls of violence toward police as well as past violent mostly peaceful actions by members of the group.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/28/2022 01:54 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 
By now, most people see ANTI-FA is NOT a US homegrown grassroots radical Antifascist political movement started against Trump. But a Movement started by deep pockets to achieve or maintain certain political wants, goals and/or to maintain a Status Quo.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/28/2022 7:33 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Yes, and oh by the way. Trump did not lose Georgia.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/28/2022 7:35 Comments || Top||

#3  #2: my solution ... all paper, no absentee!
Posted by: irish rage boy || 04/28/2022 8:52 Comments || Top||

#4  It is my understanding that Antifa started in Germany in the 1930s battling the Nazi Brownshirts in the streets. It dates back to Antifaschistische Aktion, set up by the Stalinist Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/28/2022 9:48 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm not that familiar with French politics; but from what I know, it seems a stretch to lable Macron a Fascist. Or are they just rioting for the sake of rioting?
Posted by: Tom || 04/28/2022 11:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Macron is the status quo. He's a globalist. How is antifa rioting against him? Why would they attack their own side?

Today's antifa has no connection to the 1930s one. They like to pretend they do, though because it makes them sound cool.
Posted by: Blackbeard Unereck7174 || 04/28/2022 11:57 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Spot on.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/28/2022 11:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Same reason cities have riots when their sportsball team wins the mega cup.

Besides, keeps the honest protesters off the street.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/28/2022 12:10 Comments || Top||

#9  Sometimes you need to demonstrate that you are a force to be reckoned with, and must be heard. If you are a source of violence, hence always newsworthy, you get a disproportionate level of influence. That your rank-and-file are just hired mutts and crazies means nothing, and their arrest or loss is unimportant, there are always more. What is important is the limousines parked in the alley behind the organizational headquarters planning the next event, and whose agents ride in them. Until they are arrested for conspiracy, and roll over on the actual puppet masters and the source of their "Dark Money", its all mystery to the uninformed across the world.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/28/2022 12:14 Comments || Top||

#10 
Posted by: Woozle Woozie || 04/28/2022 14:36 Comments || Top||

#11 
Posted by: Woozy Woozy || 04/28/2022 16:00 Comments || Top||

#12  They like to pretend they do, though because it makes them sound cool.

Not as cool as a .45.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/28/2022 18:06 Comments || Top||

#13  When they had the WTO riots in Seattle the same players were just called anarchists then. Now they've found a name they can use to fool the rubes, just like BLM, and the Democratic Socialist Republics.
Posted by: ruprecht || 04/28/2022 20:24 Comments || Top||

#14  Your agony aunt, Minnie Love,
Is here, friends, when push comes to shove
In affairs of the hole,
Helping Party or prole,
And her answer is, always, "More, guv!"
Posted by: Gleque Fliter4810 || 04/28/2022 23:16 Comments || Top||


A man has been arrested in Denmark on suspicion of violating anti-terrorism laws by allegedly promoting ISIS on social media
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

A singularly uninformative article.
Police said domestic security agency PET took part in the operation, but they did not give further details, including the suspect’s age.

"We still have a longer investigation ahead of us," Copenhagen Police Inspector Dannie Rise said.

PET reported last month that Denmark’s "biggest terrorist threat" remains people who sympathize with Death Eater bad boys, including ISIS and al-Qaeda.

The agency said "a significant number of terrorist attacks have been averted in Denmark" and the threat against the country "remains serious."
Posted by: Fred || 04/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Certainly, a victim of the Disinformation Police.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/28/2022 18:10 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Police official martyred in South Waziristan attack
[Dawn] A police official was martyred when unknown button men attacked him in Wana, the headquarters of South Wazoo district, on Wednesday.

Residents said Assistant Sub-Inspector Aslam Javed was walking after Iftar in the main town when attackers driving a non-custom paid car opened fire on him near Pir Sultan Mosque. He died instantly.

The body of the martyred official was shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital, Wana.

According to doctors, the official received two bullets in head.

The police said investigations had begun into the killing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/28/2022 02:13 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


Pakistan separatist group warns China of more deadly attacks
Follow up to this story from yesterday.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Pakistain separatist group warned Wednesday of more deadly attacks on Chinese targets, a day after a woman jacket wallah killed four people - including three teachers posted from Beijing.

The Baloch Liberation Army - one of several groups fighting for independence in Pakistain’s biggest province - grabbed credit for Tuesday’s blast, saying it was the first time a woman had "self sacrificed" for the group.

Chinese nationals and interests have regularly been targeted by separatists in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, where Beijing is involved in lucrative mining and energy projects.

"Hundreds of highly trained male and female members of the Baloch Liberation Army’s Majeed Brigade are ready to carry out deadly attacks in any part of Balochistan and Pakistain," front man Jeeyand Baloch said in a statement published in English.

He threatened Beijing with "even harsher" attacks unless the neighboring country halted its "exploitation projects" and "occupying of the Pak state."

Three Chinese teachers and a Pak driver were killed near the gate of the Confucius Institute at Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
University, when the bomber detonated explosives next to their minibus.

A security official at the university told AFP he had previously raised concerns about the safety of 15 Chinese staff on the campus.

"Reports emerged in February that an attack might be carried out on campus," the source, who asked not be named, told AFP.

The bomber was named as 30-year-old Shaari Baloch, a married mother of an eight-year-old girl and four-year-old boy, the BLA said, adding that she was a science teacher studying for a master’s degree.

Police confirmed the details.

Suicide attacks by women are very rare in Pakistain, reported only four times in recent years.

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged Pakistain to ensure the safety of all Chinese citizens and interests in the country and to launch a full investigation.

It also advised citizens to "take strict precautions, and do not go out unless necessary."

China is upgrading energy links and infrastructure as part of a $54 billion program known as the China-Pakistain Economic Corridor, with both nations wary of security threats to the projects.
Dawn adds:
CTD official Raja Umar Khattab said that the jacket wallah, identified as Shari Baloch alias Brimash, was born in Turbat in 1991. She was married and had two children.

He said that her husband, Dr Haibatan, originally hailed from Kech, was currently doing a public health course at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and was staying at a nearby five-star hotel. However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
his wife lived in Gulistan-e-Jauhar with her children.

He said that she and her husband had left their places a week before the attack and the husband’s whereabouts were not known. Raids were being carried out to find the husband and other controllers, he said.

The CTD official also clarified that the suicide bomber was not a student of KU. He said she got all her education up to university level in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
and later she was employed as a government schoolteacher.

The officer added that the outlawed BLA had grabbed credit for the attack and shared details about the attacker on their social media platforms.

INJURED OUT OF DANGER
Separately, SSP-East Syed Abdul Rahim Sherazi said the condition of all four injured persons, including one Chinese, was out of danger.

He said two Rangers personnel escorting the van of the Chinese faculty members suffered minor injuries. One private guard, Hamid, suffered injuries in the leg and face. Chinese teacher Wang Yuqing underwent surgery.

Additional Police Surgeon at the JPMC Dr Summaiya Syed said that four charred bodies and remains of a fifth person were brought to the hospital on Tuesday evening for a post-mortem examination.

She said that four bodies — two males and two females — were beyond recognition and 100pc burnt. Their multiple samples for DNA profiling were taken.

Posted by: Fred || 04/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Baloch Liberation Army


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Bedouin Israeli sentenced to 14 years for planning Temple Mount attack
[IsraelTimes] Walid Abu Madiam was caught in Jerusalem’s Old City in November 2020 with a knife and a screwdriver and convicted of attempting to stab a police officer or IDF soldier

An Israeli man from the southern Bedouin city of Rahat was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Wednesday for planning a terror attack against security forces at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount holy site in November 2020.

Walid Abu Madiam, now 23, arrived in Jerusalem on November 6, 2020, armed with a utility knife and a screwdriver. Prosecutors said he planned to murder a police officer or a soldier by stabbing them in the neck, and was driven by nationalistic motives.

Beersheba District Court Judge Daniel Ben Tolila told the court that Abu Madiam’s sentence took into account the fact that he was an Israeli citizen.

According to Haaretz, Ben Tolila wrote in his ruling that Abu Madiam’s citizenship means that "he has a duty of loyalty to the state," and therefore his intention to commit terror was even more severe.

Abu Madiam had told his wife the plan before heading to Jerusalem and asked her not to tell anyone, according to the indictment. She tried to dissuade him, but he warned that he would divorce her if she revealed the plan to anyone.

He called a friend and asked him to give him a ride to Jerusalem to pray. On the way, Abu Madiam’s behavior prompted the friend to ask whether he was planning an attack, and he confessed.

According to the indictment, the friend immediately stopped the car and told him to rethink his plan. Abu Madiam then claimed he had been joking and was in fact going to attack a man who had disrespected his wife. That persuaded the friend to continue.
*sigh*
Abu Madiam got off at Damascus Gate around 1 a.m., the indictment says, and tried to make his way to al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount. His behavior raised the suspicion of police forces near the Lion’s Gate, and he was arrested and taken for questioning by police and the Shin Bet security agency.

He reportedly stated that he was motivated to attack due to the fact that "Israel abuses those who come to the Temple Mount and soldiers beat Arabs for no reason."

He was indicted several weeks later and convicted in January 2022 of attempted murder with terrorist intent.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/28/2022 00:02 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Father of convicted terrorist threatens father of slain soldier victim
[IsraelTimes] Odeh Abu Jaudah, who faces separate accusations tied to the case, tells Boaz Kokia: ’We know where you live, you are murderers’; police later detain him over threats

The father of a man convicted of murdering IDF soldier Ron Kokia in 2017 threatened the victim’s father on Wednesday and called him a murderer.

Odeh Abu Jaudah, whose son Khaled stabbed Kokia to death in Arad, clashed with Boaz Kokia at the Beersheba District Court. The two confronted each other, after a hearing for the elder Abu Jaudah, a resident of an unrecognized Bedouin village, who is facing charges tied to the attack, but is not accused of involvement in murder.

Abu Jaudah and his brother shouted at Kokia, who came to the hearing along with activists from Im Tirzu, a right-wing advocacy group.

A verbal altercation ensued between the two camps.

"We know where you live, let’s take this outside," Abu Jaudah shouted at Kokia, according to a Channel 12 news report. "You are murderers, you are shit."

In a statement later, Kokia called on the court to severely punish Abu Jaudah. The illegal presence of Paleostinians who do not have permits to be in Israel is what leads to terror attacks, he said, and pointed to the recent deadly assaults in Bnei Brak and Tel Aviv, both committed by Paleostinian who were illegally in Israel.

Later Wednesday, police detained Abu Jaudah and his brother for questioning over the threats.

Abu Jaudah is accused of twice helping the terrorist’s mother illegally enter Israel before and after the stabbing attack, including after she had already been caught without a permit and expelled in the wake of the murder. His relationship with the woman was not clear from the Channel 12 report, but Kokia has in the past accused Abu Jaudah of polygamy, according to media.

Kokia and Abu Jaudah have clashed at the courthouse in the past.

In February 2020, Abu Jaudah and his family condemned the killing carried out by his own son and begged forgiveness for the act.

A year later, the Ynet news site reported that Kokia pressured prosecutors to drop a plea deal with stabber Khaled Abu Jaudah’s half-brother Zahi, who the Shin Bet said acted as an accomplice and assisted him after the attack. Zahi has been indicted for attempted murder, possession of a knife, and obstruction of justice, among other charges.

Kokia has called for the death penalty
for both Khaled and Zahi Abu Jaudah. Though not an option for the court, some right-wing politicians have in recent years called for legally instituting a death penalty for attackers.

The Shin Bet said Khaled Abu Jaudah, from an unrecognized Bedouin village in southern Israel, fatally stabbed Kokia, a sergeant in the IDF’s Nahal Infantry Brigade, while the serviceman waited at a bus stop on November 30, 2017. He was convicted in 2019 of first-degree murder.
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Paleo news agency: Israeli forces kill Palestinian in West Bank; Israel Times: IDF arrests 17 jihadis in WB, raids home of Tel Aviv killer
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israeli forces killed a Paleostinian man and maimed three others in West Bank festivities early Wednesday, the official Paleostinian news agency WAFA said, a day after the fatal shooting of another Paleostinian.

The Israeli army told AFP it was "conducting counterterrorism activity" in the city of Jenin, but did not comment on any casualties.

Israeli security forces have stepped up operations in the occupied West Bank, particularly around Jenin where there are active fighters from several gangs, after a series of attacks in Israel since late March.

The man killed in the latest incident was identified as 21-year-old Ahmad Massad, from the village of Burqin in the northern West Bank.

He was shot in the head, a hospital official told WAFA.

Massad’s death follows that of another Paleostinian killed Tuesday when Israeli forces stormed a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank during what the army called a "counter-terrorism" operation that sparked violent mostly peaceful riots.

The Paleostinian health ministry said 20-year-old Ahmed Ibrahim Oweidat "succumbed to critical wounds sustained by live bullets to the head," during the shooting in Aqabat Jaber camp near Jericho.

Clashes between Israeli forces and Paleostinians are common in the West Bank, a territory occupied by Israel since 1967.

But there has been a wave of bloodshed in the territory and in Israel as the Moslem holy month of Ramadan and the Jewish holiday of Passover overlapped this month.

Massad is among 26 Paleostinians and Israeli Arabs killed since late March, among them several assailants, according to an AFP tally.

During the same period, 14 Israelis were killed in various attacks.

Violent festivities have also rocked the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, sparking fears of another conflict after last year’s 11-day war between Israel and gangs 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...
Strip.

Concerns of fresh al-Aqsa festivities are building, though, ahead of Friday prayers at the compound, with the end of Ramadan also approaching in early May.

Following the al-Aqsa festivities, isolated rocket fire towards Israel from the Gaza Strip resumed, prompting Israeli reprisals on targets linked to Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,, the group which controls the coastal Paleostinian enclave.

No injuries have been reported on either side as a result of the rocket fire or retaliatory air strikes.

Paleostinian Moslems have been angered by an uptick in Jewish visits to the al-Aqsa compound, Islam’s third-holiest site. It is also Judaism’s holiest place and known to Jews as the Temple Mount.

In an apparent attempt to ease tensions, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid told news hounds on Sunday that Israel was committed to the "status quo" at al-Aqsa, meaning an adherence to long-standing convention allowing Jews to visit the compound but not pray there.
The Times of Israel puts all that in perspective:
Troops detain 5 suspects in West Bank city area and raid home of terrorist who killed 3 in Tel Aviv shooting; Palestinian media reports Ahmad Massad, 20, killed

A Palestinian was killed during a firefight between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday morning, according to Palestinian Authority health officials and the Islamic Jihad terror group.

Israeli troops raided Jenin and the nearby town of Qabatiya in the pre-dawn hours in an attempt to arrest Palestinian terror suspects. Soldiers also pinned a demolition order to the home of Ra’ad Hazem, the terrorist who killed three people when he opened fire in a busy Tel Aviv bar on April 7.

The military said five Palestinians were detained in the Jenin area. Palestinian media identified one as Asim Abu al-Heija, the son of a senior official in the Hamas terror group.

Palestinian gunmen opened fire on the soldiers after they entered the city’s incendiary refugee camp, the army said. A local branch of the Islamic Jihad terror group claimed responsibility for the firefight in a statement circulated in Palestinian media.

“During the operation in Jenin, Israel Defense Forces troops acted to quell a violent riot at the scene with dozens of Palestinians who opened fire, burned trash, and hurled explosive devices at troops, who responded with gunfire,” the army said in a statement.

According to the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry, an 18-year-old Palestinian was killed during the clashes. The official WAFA news outlet identified the deceased as Ahmad Massad, 21, a resident of the nearby town of Burqin.

Another three Palestinians were injured by live fire during the gunfight with Israeli troops, although all were in stable condition, the PA Health Ministry said.

The operation was the military’s first in Jenin in two weeks. Israeli forces conducted a spate of raids in mid-April in an attempt to crack down on a wave of Palestinian violence emanating from the northern West Bank city.

There was no immediate word from Palestinian health officials on Massad’s death. But the terror group confirmed it and claimed the young man as a member.

“With pride and regard we hail the heroic martyr, our son Ahmed Muhammad Fathi Massad,” Islamic Jihad said in a statement, adding that Massad had formerly served time in Israeli prison for security offenses.
Not exactly an innocent...
A string of four attacks that preceded the Israeli crackdown killed 14 people in Israel — the deadliest outbreak of terrorism in years. The ensuing raids sparked clashes that left at least 25 Palestinians dead, many of whom took part in the clashes, while others appeared to have been uninvolved civilians.

The Israeli army said 12 Palestinians suspected of involvement in terror activities were arrested during overnight raids across the West Bank, including two in Jenin and three in the nearby town of Qabatiya.

The Jenin area has emerged as a major hotspot for terror activity in recent months. Two perpetrators of recent attacks — Hazem and Diaa Hamarsheh, whose shooting spree left five dead in Bnei Brak — hailed from Jenin and its environs.

“We are not terrorists. We are defending our land and country and the path of our prophet,” Hazem’s father Fathi told local Palestinian media after the demolition order was posted on his Jenin home. The former PA security officer has repeatedly praised his son’s terror attack.

The Shin Bet security service said Monday that it had foiled an attempt by the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad to enlist residents of the West Bank to commit attacks against Israeli targets.

The agency said several Palestinians from the Jenin area — including Yasmin Shaaban, a 40-year-old mother of four — were detained for planning a bombing attack against Israeli farmers in the area.
Posted by: Fred || 04/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli missile strike on Damascus kills nine people
More on this report from yesterday.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least five Syrian soldiers were among nine people killed in Israeli air strikes near Damascus, in the deadliest such raid this year, a war monitor said on Wednesday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an ammunition depot and several positions linked to Iran’s military presence in Syria were among the targets.

Air defenses intercepted an Israeli missile strike near the capital, state media reported earlier on Wednesday.

"Our air defenses confronted an Israeli aggression over the outskirts of Damascus," the SANA news agency said.

AFP correspondents in the Syrian capital said they heard loud explosions.

Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes inside the country, targeting government positions as well as allied Iran-backed forces and fighters of Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial...
’s Shia bad boy group Hezbollah.

While Israel rarely comments on individual strikes, it has acknowledged mounting hundreds since 2011.

The conflict in Syria has killed nearly half a million people and forced around half of the country’s pre-war population from their homes.
Dawn adds:
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an ammunition depot and several positions linked to Iran’s military presence in Syria were among the targets.

“The Israeli enemy carried out an air assault at dawn... targeting several positions around Damascus,” a military source was quoted as saying by the state news agency SANA. “The investigation indicated that four soldiers were killed, three others injured and material damage noted.”

The latest strike follows another near Damascus on April 14, without casualties, according to SANA.

The UK-based Observatory, which relies on a vast network of sources across Syria, said eight people were also wounded in the strikes.

The other four killed were not members of the Syrian military but belonged to Iran-backed militia, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said, adding that he could not verify their nationality.

He said at least five separate sites were targeted in the latest Israeli raid.
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