[JPost] British Police said earlier that officers were investigating a suspect package in the vicinity of the US Embassy.
British police officers carried out a controlled explosion near the US embassy in London following the discovery of a suspect package, authorities said on Friday.
"We can confirm that the 'loud bang' reported in the area a short time ago was a controlled explosion carried out by officers," London's Metropolitan Police said on X.
"Enquiries are still ongoing and cordons will remain in place for the time being."
Earlier the US embassy had reported going into lockdown, due to a security threat, sources close to the matter told The Jerusalem Post.
The police force had said that they were investigating a suspect package and had put up cordons in the area south of the River Thames, adding that they were aware of speculation online regarding the incident.
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[IsraelTimes] Former politician denounces ‘political’ ban, says it’s because she opposes Palestinian state; Jewish groups slam decision as offensive; car burned in antisemitic attack in Sydney
Former justice minister Ayelet Shaked said on Thursday that she was barred from entering Australia, where she was slated to address a conference organized by the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC).
The Australian newspaper reported that Shaked was denied a visa because she might "incite discord," noting that the act used to prevent her entry stipulates that applicants may be barred if it is believed that they may "vilify a segment of the Australian community, or incite discord in the Australian community or in a segment of that community."
Speaking with the paper, AIJAC chief Colin Rubenstein condemned the visa ban as "a disgraceful act of hostility towards a democratic ally."
"It is extraordinary that a government that refuses to take any meaningful action against an Iranian ambassador who effectively calls for genocide would act so undiplomatically towards a friend," he said.
Also responding to the reports, Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Leibler tweeted, "The Australian Government’s decision to refuse a visa to Ayelet Shaked is both baffling and deeply offensive."
"Ayelet is a former justice minister in the most diverse and centrist Israeli government in history, which included an Israeli Arab party and minister. This refusal is particularly perplexing given that this very same government granted her a visa less than two years ago," he wrote.
"How is it conceivable that our government has granted a visa to a Paleostinian man from 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... who reportedly has had close family connections and personal interactions with terrorist organizations, yet refuses entry to a former government minister of a democratic nation and one of our Australia’s friends?"
In a later post, Leibler addressed Shaked directly, "I am embarrassed of my Government. Rest assured, most Australians do not support this outrageous decision."
Speaking with Channel 12 on Thursday, Shaked slammed what she called Australia’s "extreme anti-Israeli and pro-Paleostinian government, part of which is even antisemitic, which for political reasons and because I oppose a Paleostinian state does not allow me to attend a strategic dialogue between Israel and Australia."
Shaked’s visa denial came amid reports that Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has recently signaled increased support for the Paleostinians, voting in May in favor of a Paleostinian bid to become a full UN member.
According to a Sky News Australia report on Wednesday, that vote went against the recommendation of Canberra’s mission to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... , and blindsided Israel, the United States and Canada, who believed Australia would abstain.
Also Thursday, meanwhile, a car in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, which has a large Jewish population, was burned and dozens of others defaced with anti-Israeli graffiti.
In a post on X early Thursday, the Israeli embassy in Australia declared that it was "appalled by the antisemitic attack."
"Words are no longer enough — it’s time for action," the embassy asserted.
Jewish Australian suburb in Sydney was targeted by anti-Semites last night. Cars were torched and graffitied with “FUCK ISRAEL” and “PKK” slogans for the Kurdish Marxist Leninist militant group. pic.twitter.com/Nf6heeVxQh
I’m shocked. Since when do thr Kurds have a problem with Israel?
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday condemned the attack as “disturbing” and “deeply troubling.”
But not disturbing and troubling enough to let an Israeli politician reenter and pollute your precious country. Got it.
“There is no place for antisemitism in Australia.
Tell your foreign minister that, Mr. Prime Minister. She does not agree with you.
Conflict overseas cannot be made a platform for prejudice at home. I have trust in our law enforcement agencies to deal with this,” he said in a statement cited by Australian media.
Antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment have risen in Australia since Hamas’s October 7 massacre, which saw thousands of terrorists burst across the border into Israel, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages, mostly civilians, amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
In October, a few days after the unprecedented onslaught, Jewish Australians who were holding a vigil outside the Sydney Opera House were faced with antisemitic pro-Palestinian protesters who chanted “F*** the Jews” and “Gas the Jews,” although law enforcement later claimed that they were chanting, “Where’re the Jews” and not “Gas the Jews.”
In an effort to combat the spike in antisemitism, Albanese appointed an envoy in July to deal with the issue, as well as an envoy to address Islamophobia.
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[Regnum] At least 38 people were killed and 20 were injured during an armed attack in northwestern Pakistan, local television channel Geo TV reported on November 21.
“At least 38 people, including a woman and a child, were killed after attackers opened fire on passenger vehicles in Ochat area of Kurram Agency,” the report said.
According to Pakistani police, the target of the attack was a convoy of cars travelling from Parachinar to Peshawar, when the militants opened fire on them.
Ambulances are at the scene. At this point, several victims are in critical condition. The TV channel, citing law enforcement agencies, notes that this attack has become the largest in the region in recent years.
On January 30, Regnum reported that an explosion occurred during prayers in a mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The bomb was detonated by a terrorist who died in the explosion. On January 31, it became known that the number of people killed in the terrorist attack had increased to 95.
While no group has grabbed credit, sources noted that the region has long been plagued by sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia communities.Sources revealed that among the 38 victims, 34 were Shia and four were Sunni. The dead also included three women and one child. At least 11 others were maimed in the attack.
The recent incident highlights the growing wave of murderous Moslem violence in Pakistain. Groups like Tehrik-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain (TTP) and the 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... Liberation Army (BLA) have intensified their attacks on Pak security forces, foreign nationals (including Chinese workers), and civilians.
In response to the rising threat, the federal government of Pakistain has approved a large-scale military operation in Balochistan. The operation aims to eliminate terrorist networks and restore security in the region.
Deutsche Welle weighs in:
A local government official told the AFP news agency that police officers were among the dead; the convoy was traveling with a police escort.
Witnesses said that attackers had fired indiscriminately at a convoy of vehicles from either side of the highway over a period of several minutes.
Crowds gathered outside the hospital in the nearby city of Parachinar awaiting the wounded.
SECTARIAN TENSIONS HIGH IN BORDER REGION
The attack happened in the district of Kurram in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where sectarian clashes between Sunni and Shiite Muslims have killed dozens of people in recent months.
Kurram is one of comparatively few areas in Sunni-majority Pakistan where Shiite Muslims make up the bulk of inhabitants.
It's also close to the border to Afghanistan, now governed by the fundamentalist Sunni Taliban, and an area of operation for anti-Shia militant groups like the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and an "Islamic State" offshoot.
Around 50 people from either religious community in Kurram were killed in clashes in July connected to a land dispute, which led to an uptick in tensions and subsequent violence.
Thursday's shooting took place on a highway that had been closed for weeks following another attack on passenger vehicles last month; it was only reopened for those traveling with police escorts.
Local police official Azmat Ali told the Associated Press (AP) that several vehicles were traveling in a convoy from the nearby city of Parachinar to Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
No group immediately claimed responsibility.
On Wednesday this week, a suicide attack in the same province at a security checkpoint killed 12 soldiers and wounded several others.
[IsraelTimes] One rocket launched from the southern Gaza Strip at the Israeli border community of Keren Shalom a short while ago was intercepted by air defenses, the IDF says.
Sirens sounded in Kerem Shalom amid the incident. There are no reports of injuries.
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[IsraelTimes] Military source says Staff Sgt. Ron Epshtein was killed by shrapnel from artillery shell amid fighting in the area; rocket fired from southern Strip intercepted by air defenses
An IDF soldier was killed during fighting in the northern 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 on Thursday, the military announced, bringing Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... in Gaza and military operations along the border with the Strip to 380.
The slain soldier was named as Staff Sgt. Ron Epshtein, 19, of the Givati Brigade’s Tzabar Battalion, from Nesher.
According to a military source, Epshtein was killed by shrapnel from an artillery shell that was fired at the Jabalia area amid an ongoing operation there. Another two soldiers were lightly maimed in the incident.
Separately, on Wednesday, a soldier with the Givati Brigade’s Rotem Battalion was seriously maimed in the northern Gaza Strip, the IDF said.
The soldier was taken to the hospital for medical treatment, it added.
On Thursday, a rocket launched from the southern Gaza Strip at the Israeli border community of Keren Shalom was intercepted by air defenses, the IDF said.
Sirens sounded in Kerem Shalom amid the incident. There were no reports of injuries.
Inside Gaza, dozens were killed or unaccounted for after a series of Israeli strikes, health authorities, Hamas-linked officials and witnesses said Thursday.
One strike near the Kamal Adwan hospital in the north of the territory left "dozens of people" dead or missing, the facility’s director Hossam Abu Safiya told AFP.
Israel has said there has been regular Hamas activity at the northern Gaza hospital.
Another strike was reported in a neighborhood of Gaza City, with civil defense front man Mahmud Bassal saying 22 were dead.
"There is a headless body. We don’t yet know who this is," Moataz al-Arouqi, who lives in the area, told AFP.
The IDF did not immediately issue a comment on the matter.
COGAT, Israel’s civilian coordination agency for the West Bank and Gaza, said Wednesday that some 7 tons (7,200 kilograms) of humanitarian aid was delivered to the Gaza Strip today by eight Jordanian Air Force helicopters for the first time.
In a statement, the IDF said that the transfer was carried out as part of Israel’s "effort to increase the volume and routes of aid entering Gaza."
It said that the aid delivery was comprised of hygiene and sanitation supplies, food, baby formula, medical equipment, and 30 different medications.
The Jordanian military said the aid was being delivered to al-Qarara, an area near Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis, where it would then be handed over to the World Food Programme for distribution.
"Code-word today is hunger everywhere in Gaza. Looters are sharing the occupation’s war against the displaced," said Tamer, a Gaza City man now living along
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[IsraelTimes] Three gunmen die in airstrike, others during gun battles, with no injuries to Israeli forces; troops find and destroy bomb-making labs and improvised explosives
The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday it was pulling out of the West Bank city of Jenin following a two-day operation in which nine terror suspects were killed by troops and several more arrested.
The 48-hour raid, which involved soldiers, Border Police officers, and members of the Shin Bet security service, was part of ongoing efforts against terror activities in the northern West Bank, the army said.
Three of the slain Paleostinians, who were armed at the time, were killed in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... , an increasingly common tactic used by the IDF in the northern West Bank, while the other six died during shootouts with troops, the army said.
There were no injuries to Israeli forces.
According to the army, the three Paleostinians killed in the airstrike were suspected of taking part in previous attacks on Israeli troops or towns. Following the airstrike, secondary explosions testified to the presence of weapons stored at the site, the IDF said.
Some of the other six Paleostinians were also involved in recent attacks on soldiers, according to the army.
During the operation, four workshops used to prepare improvised bombs were destroyed along with dozens of bombs concealed beneath access routes that had been laid with the purpose of targeting security forces, the statement said. Forces also seized dozens of weapons.
An unspecified number of suspects were detained and handed over to the Shin Bet for interrogation.
The army had earlier this week confirmed killing three of the Paleostinians during a raid in a town near Jenin, identifying them as members of the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group.
Border Police troops had entered the town of Qabatiya south of Jenin to arrest Raed Hanaysha, 24, a former terror convict suspected of being involved in shooting and bombing attacks against soldiers in the West Bank that did not cause casualties, according to a joint statement from the IDF, Israel Police, and Shin Bet on Tuesday.
While attempting to arrest Hanaysha, troops were fired on by two other button men, and killed them and Hanaysha. Islamic Jihad confirmed that the three had been members of the terror group.
Since October 7, 2023, when the Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... terror group attacked Israel, starting the ongoing 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... , troops have arrested some 5,250 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,050 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 716 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or Death Eaters killed while carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 41 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
Since October 7, 2023, the IDF has carried out more than 70 airstrikes in the West Bank, using drones, attack helicopters, and fighter jets.
[JPost] Israel Air Force warplanes struck and destroyed some 45 Hezbollah launchers in southern Lebanon since the beginning of the week, the military said on Friday.
The strike, carried out by the guidance of the Northern Command, targeted the launchers which fired projectiles at Israeli territory along with launchers that were ready for use and positioned towards Israel.
The IDF added that it had struck the launchers from which Hezbollah fired rockets at Nahariya on Thursday and at Haifa early Friday morning.
Hezbollah's Thursday rocket barrage to Nahariya killed Brian Director, 27, from Ma'alot-Tarshiha.
[IsraelTimes] In a fourth wave of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Beirut’s southern suburbs today, the IDF says it struck a Hezbollah weapons depot, a command room and other infrastructure used by the terror group.
Before the strikes, the IDF issued evacuation warnings to civilians in the area.
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... ’s health ministry says Israeli strikes on several locations in the eastern Bekaa Valley killed 22 people today, with state media reporting four family members killed in one village.
"Israeli enemy" strikes on five areas in the Baalbek region killed a total of 22 people, the ministry says in separate statements, with the National News Agency reporting that a strike on the village of Maqneh killed at least four members of the same family. The figures don’t differentiate between civilians and combatants.
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[Ynet] Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition organization based in London, reported Thursday evening that at least 82 terrorists and commanders in the pro-Iranian militias and the Lebanese Hezbollah organization were killed in the unusual attack in Syria attributed to Israel in Tadmor.
Tadmor is another name for the city of Palmyra, which is next to a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Not that the archeological treasure kept any of the parties in Syria’s civil war from merrily engaging in extreme violence in the area over the past decade, but the standard is different for Israel.
According to the group, 56 of the dead are Syrians affiliated with the pro-Iranian militias, and 22 are of non-Syrian nationality, most of them from the pro-Iranian Iraqi al-Nujaba militia. Next to them, four Hezbollah members also were killed.
If the reports are correct, it appears that this is a message to Syrian President Bashar Assad, who is hosting senior members of Hezbollah, and therefore Israel is increasing the pressure on the terrorist organization, precisely at the height of negotiations toward a cease-fire, and maximizing success in hitting it not only in Lebanon. Too bad some terrorists, like ICC or EU officials, are currently untouchable.
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[JPost] British Police said earlier that officers were investigating a suspect package in the vicinity of the US Embassy.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...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...
