[IsraelTimes] Rocket launchers in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis primed for an attack on Israel were destroyed in a drone strike, the IDF says.
The military says that some 35 more targets were hit by Israeli Air Force fighter jets and drones over the past day, including cells of gunmen and buildings used by terror groups.
Meanwhile, troops with the 162nd Division continue to advance in southern Gaza’s Rafah. The IDF says the division has been carrying out raids in Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood, and destroyed a booby-trapped building in an area where Hamas was operating.
Reservists with the 252nd Division are meanwhile operating in the Netzarim Corridor of central Gaza. The IDF says the reservists directed drone strikes on several gunmen in the area in the past day.
[IsraelTimes] The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs lodges a complaint with the UN Security Council and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres requesting to condemn “Israel’s cyberattacks on Lebanon,” the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reports.
The complaint is based on a report by Beirut’s Ministry of Telecommunications which found that signal interference from northern Israel led to a decline in the accuracy of navigation systems in Lebanon, impacting a host of applications.
Disruptions to the Global Positioning System (GPS) in Lebanon “jeopardize the country’s civil aviation services and telecom systems at vital facilities,” NNA writes.
The Israel Defense Forces has been blocking some GPS signals amid the ongoing war with the Palestinian terror group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and clashes with Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
Since the early days of the war, Israeli motorists using navigation apps like Waze and Google Maps would often see their locations show up completely wrong — users in Tel Aviv would be marked in Cairo, while people in Haifa would show up as in Beirut.
In March, Beirut announced that it would file an urgent complaint with the UNSC over the same issue, which it then defined as a “violation of its sovereignty” by Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Bracing for the threatened response by Iran and Hezbollah to the killings of Ismail Haniyeh and Fuad Shukr, Israel is reportedly working to finalize the coordination of a regional and international coalition in order to thwart potential attacks, as was the case when Iran fired hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel on April 13-14.
According to Channel 12, this joint effort will be at the heart of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expected conversation shortly with US President Joe Biden.
To that end, Britain’s defense secretary John Healey is expected to fly to Israel tomorrow, the report says.
Yesterday, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin publicly said the US would “help defend Israel” if it is attacked in the wake of the Haniyeh killing. Israel has not claimed responsibility for the Hamas leader’s death in Tehran.
As of this writing, Israel’s Home Front Command has not issued new instructions to civilians regarding threats of revenge by Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas.
An unsourced Channel 12 report also says Israel has conveyed a message via Arab and other regional third parties to Hezbollah that, whereas the Lebanese terror group killed 12 children in Majdal Shams on Saturday night, Israel responded by hitting a military target, Shukr. If Hezbollah responds, the Israeli message is quoted as saying, it will be a case of “army against army. But if you start to hit civilian targets, this will be a broad war against Hezbollah, and Israel will see itself as unconstrained.”
What this means, the TV report suggests, is not that Israel would target civilians, but that it could target Lebanese infrastructure, including in Beirut. The goal of the message, the report says, is to constrain Hezbollah.
Channel 12 also quotes an unnamed senior Israeli source saying the current high state of military preparation for a potential attack could last for several days. While Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah “could attempt to respond quickly,” the source says, it could take the Iranians longer to decide “how and when they want to respond.”
The report also says that Biden, in his call with Netanyahu, is expected to press Netanyahu to utilize Israel’s latest achievements and show flexibility in efforts to conclude a ceasefire-hostage deal with Hamas in Gaza.
However, Netanyahu, the report says, is convinced that only military pressure has yielded Hamas flexibility to date, and that now is not the time to take the foot off the gas.
[IsraelTimes] The Biden administration believes Iran is going to attack Israel in the coming days as revenge for the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran earlier this week, according to senior US officials quoted by Hebrew media.
The officials quoted by the Walla news site add that Washington is prepared to help Israel stop a potential attack from Iran and its proxies in the region, including Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Palestinian Hamas terror group.
The US assessment is that the reprisal will be similar to Iran’s attack on April 13-14 when it launched a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel in retaliation for a deadly strike on Revolutionary Guard generals in Damascus on April 1. Almost all of some 300 projectiles in the barrage were shot down.
However, the officials say the response will likely be larger in scope, as it will likely involve Hezbollah, according to the Walla report.
The report adds that senior Biden administration officials are concerned that this could make pulling together a regional and international coalition to thwart potential attacks, as was the case when Iran fired hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel in April, more difficult.
The US, Britain, Jordan and France all helped to intercept the massive barrage, while several Gulf States, among them Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, reportedly passed on intelligence about Tehran’s plans to attack Israel, providing vital information that was key to the success of the air defense measures.
[IsraelTimes] Israel’s National Cyber Directorate has successfully taken down a social media campaign that threatened members of the Israeli delegation to the 2024 Paris Olympics, according to Hebrew media reports.
The video that was taken down reportedly showed a “price list” for the kidnapping and murder of Israeli athletes, with a reward of 40,000 euros for an assassination.
According to the Maariv newspaper, the social media clip was made to look like a news item, with a narration in broken English and images from the Olympics in Munich in 1972 during which a cell of Black September terrorists broke into the Olympic village and took Israeli athletes hostage, eventually killing 11 and a German police officer.
It featured photos of Israeli taekwondo practitioner Avishag Semberg and soccer players Dor Turgeman and Daniel Peretz, the latter of whom is not part of the Paris delegation having injured himself in the weeks before the Olympics.
The campaign was reportedly connected to a far-right French organization.
Last week, Channel 12 reported that a group of anti-Israel hackers calling themselves “Zeus” had published personal information about Israeli athletes and pictures from their military service. That campaign was reportedly promoted using social media profiles impersonating a French organization called GUD, a far-right students’ union.
[IsraelTimes] Newspapers delete mention of Amit Nakesh after learning fictitious Mossad agent’s name a homophone with ‘the assassin’ in Hebrew
Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran on Wednesday by a shadowy Mossad agent by the name of Amit Nakesh, which sounds suspiciously like the Hebrew word hamitnakesh, or “the assassin” — at least according to Turkish media reports.
Israel has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the attack, which has lit a fuse under regional tensions. Soon after the strike, however, Israeli social media users fell back on a familiar practice: writing prank posts about the amazing exploits of made-up Israeli soldiers and Mossad agents and giving them punny names to match.
“After his military service, Nakesh joined the Mossad and has participated in high-profile operations,” wrote the Antalya-based Akdeniz Gerçek Gazetesi, apparently picking up joke Israeli social media posts as news. “An expert in assassinations and recruiting intelligence sources, Nakesh took part in several operations against elements whom Israel considers hostile.”
The newspaper speculated that Nakesh is a Jew of Indian origin given his first name, Amit, which it said is popular in India.
Though they were slow to catch on to the prank, Turkish outlets eventually scrubbed all mentions of Nakesh — but not before they caught the attention of Israelis on social media.
By Thursday morning, an X account attributed to Nakesh popped up.
“Hi friends, Mossad agent Amit Nakesh here — a friend of the pilot Eli Copter,” the account posted, sharing a picture of Turkish reports about the agent.
היי חברים כאן סוכן המוסד עמית נקש חברו של הטייס אלי קופטר.
אני רואה שבטורקיה עלו עלי שחיסלתי את המחבל איסמעיל הנייה.
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Hey friends, this is Mossad agent Amit Naksh, a friend of the pilot Eli Kopter.
I see that in Turkey they blamed me for killing the terrorist Ismail Haniyeh.
I have no fear! Only Israeli pride!
No one is prouder than me to serve the people of Israel 🇮🇱
Mossad agent Eli Copter (“helicopter”) was behind the May 19 chopper crash that killed Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian — at least according to Israeli social media quipsters.
The French-Israeli news channel i24 had to issue an apology after falling for that joke.
[IsraelTimes] Since October, Ankara has thwarted all collaboration with Israel, which holds partner status in military alliance, sources say, adding Turkey will maintain stance until war ends.
Of course he stands with his fellow Muslim Brotherhooders against those uppity juices, who refuse to stand still to be slaughtered as they ought.
Turkey has blocked cooperation between NATO and Israel since October because of its war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza and said the alliance should not engage with Israel as a partner until there is an end to the conflict, sources familiar with the process said.
Israel carries the status of NATO partner and has fostered close relations with the military alliance and some of its members, notably its biggest ally the United States.
Before Israel’s offensive in Gaza — prompted by Hamas’s thousands-strong October 7 rampage through southern Israel that left 1,200 people dead and saw 251 kidnapped — NATO member Turkey had been working to mend its long-strained ties with Israel.
Since then, Ankara has been fiercely critical of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, which it claims amounts to a genocide, and has halted all bilateral trade. It has also slammed many Western allies for their support of Israel.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the sources said Turkey had vetoed all NATO engagement with Israel since October, including joint meetings and exercises, saying it viewed Israel’s “massacre” of Palestinians in Gaza as a violation of NATO’s founding principles.
The sources said Turkey would maintain the block on Israel and not allow it to continue or advance its interaction with NATO until there was an end to the conflict, as it believes Israel’s actions in Gaza violate international law and universal human rights.
After a NATO summit in Washington in July, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said it was not possible for NATO to continue its partnership with the Israeli administration.
Earlier this week, Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz urged the alliance to expel Turkey after Erdogan appeared to threaten to intervene militarily in Israel, as it had in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh in the past.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian media says Wasim Abu Shaaban, killed alongside Hamas leader, was part of elite unit before being appointed to protect politburo chief
Now we know.
Palestinian media outlets reported Thursday that the bodyguard of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed with him in Tehran the day before,
…at two in the morning in Mr. Haniyeh’s bedroom, which could be all kinds of interesting, but probably isn’t..
was part of a terror squad that penetrated into Israel through a tunnel in July 2014 and fired an anti-tank missile at IDF forces in Nahal Oz, killing five soldiers.
An aside: an interesting point made in yesterday’s article is that Israel has killed over sixty of Mr. Haniyeh’s nearest and dearest, a high price to pay for that seriously overstuffed offshore bank account.
According to Sama News and the Palestinian Media Center, Wasim Abu Shaaban was a member of the cell that carried out the attack during that year’s Gaza war, known as Operation Protective Edge.
Abu Shaaban was reportedly born in Gaza in 1988, studied sharia law at Gaza’s Islamic University, and was married with four children.
He is said to have begun his career in the terror group as an aide to former Hamas senior member and Palestinian interior minister Said Seyam, killed by Israel in 2009.
He was also reportedly a fighter in Hamas’s military wing, the Izz a-Din al-Qassam Brigades, where he rose to become deputy commander of a company in the Nukhba (elite unit) of Tel al-Hawa, in the southern part of Gaza City.
Abu Shaaban was later appointed to become a permanent member of the delegation accompanying Haniyeh as his bodyguard, after Haniyeh left the Gaza Strip in 2019, the Palestinian outlets said.
A funeral procession for Haniyeh and Abu Shaaban was held in the Iranian capital Tehran on Thursday, attended by the Islamic Republic’s upper echelons. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led prayers, having earlier threatened a “harsh punishment” for the Hamas leader’s killing.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps chief General Hossein Salami were also present. Haniyeh had been visiting Tehran for Pezeshkian’s inauguration ceremony on Tuesday.
Senior Hamas figure Khalil al-Hayya, the movement’s foreign relations chief, vowed during the ceremony that “Ismail Haniyeh’s slogan, ‘We will not recognize Israel,’ will remain an immortal slogan” and “we will pursue Israel until it is uprooted from the land of Palestine.”
Iran’s conservative parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Iran “will certainly carry out the supreme leader’s order” to avenge Haniyeh by carrying out a direct strike on Israel.
“It is our duty to respond at the right time and in the right place,” he said in a speech with crowds chanting “Death to Israel, Death to America!”
The caskets, painted on top with the colors of the Palestinian flag and decorated on the sides with a black-and-white pattern resembling a Palestinian keffiyeh scarf, were borne on a flower-bedecked truck through leafy streets where cooling water mists sprayed the flag-waving crowds.
After the procession, the two bodies are expected to be transferred to Qatar. In Doha, another ceremony is to be held after Friday’s Islamic prayers shortly after noon in the country’s largest mosque.
Haniyeh and Abu Shaaban will then be buried in Lusail, north of the capital Doha, in the same cemetery where the founder of the State of Qatar, Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani, is interred.
While Iran has blamed the attack on its arch-foe, Israel has declined to comment on Haniyeh’s death.
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Israel could take him out any time it wants. While it waits for an attack, military planners are at work. My own proclivity would be a bunker buster on Qom. Secondly, would be a psywar attack on Tehran; ordering everyone out in 24 hours. However, if this next attack on Israel has more success than the last one, perhaps an attack on Iran's parliament will be approved.
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Also need to get the word out that several mullahs in the Guardian Counsel and several IRNG big shots are in the pay of Mossad.
Some of this may even be true.
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^ Some clever money transfers would work. Hilarity ensues
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[CNN] A few weeks after promising to eliminate taxes on tips, former President Donald Trump has unveiled a second proposal for targeted tax relief. The beneficiaries this time would be senior citizens, an influential voting bloc.
"SENIORS SHOULD NOT PAY TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY!" Trump posted Wednesday on Truth Social.
While lifting the levy would benefit many older Americans for a little while, the proposal would harm the popular entitlement program, as well as Medicare and the federal budget, if Trump and Congress don’t come up with a way to replace the lost revenue, said Marc Goldwein, senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. What’s more, many seniors could ultimately be hurt if Social Security and Medicare’s trust funds run dry sooner and benefits have to be cut."
* Taxes on Social Secuirty was begun during the presidency of the onerous Bill Clinton.
This was an awakening moment for me in an environment where the only four letter words your couldn't say were Rush, Dole, and Bush.
Of course I had a entry level, not for everyone job, and payroll taxes shock. 'So they take my money involuntarily, and x decades later (if I get it at all) they return my money and tax it.'
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currently individuals with less than $25k of income don't have to pay any tax on SSecurity
individuals with over $34k of income may have to pay taxes on up to 85% of SSecurity
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Medicare is taken out of my social security separate from the tax. I don't see how this would affect medicare. Congress needs to stop raiding social security.
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- new jobs less than expected
- unemployment up
- long term unemployment up
- people working part time when they want full time - up
- work week hours - down
- previous months job gains revised - down
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And raise taxes, negative interest rates, price fixing should clear the way to a lotto of which businesses must hire a number of illegals. It'll be random, they promise.
[Fox via Bongino] A whistleblower told Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley that Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. personally directed cuts to the Counter Surveillance Division (CSD), which led to the threat assessment team failing to perform its typical duties prior to the Butler, Pennsylvania rally.
The senator's report comes after lawmakers grilled agency leaders on the mounting security failures at the Pennsylvania rally where former President Trump narrowly escaped assassination.
The whistleblower alleged that the Secret Service CSD, the division that performs threat assessment of event sites before the event occurs, did not perform its evaluation prior to the fateful rally in Western Pennsylvania on July 13.
"This is significant because CSD's duties include evaluating potential security threats outside the security perimeter and mitigating those threats during the event," Hawley wrote in a letter to Rowe on Thursday.
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Perhaps this information will help Ronny 'get to the bottom' of this situation. More importantly, 'not leap to hasty conclusions', or 'target lower eschelon personnel'.
[JustTheNews] The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee on Thursday sent a letter to New York Judge Juan Merchan's daughter, requesting documents related to her father's alleged conflicts of interest in prosecuting former President Donald Trump.
Merchan presided over Trump's hush money trial earlier this year, despite calls for him to recuse himself because of his daughter's work on behalf of the former president's political adversaries. His daughter, Loren Merchan, is president of Authentic Campaigns Inc., which the committee claims benefitted from Trump's prosecution and conviction.
Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury of falsifying business records to hide a hush money payment to former porn star Stormy Daniels.
"In testimony to the Committee, experts have explained how Judge Merchan made several errors before and during President Trump’s trial that violated due process, infringed upon his First Amendment rights, and prevented him from receiving a fair trial," House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan wrote in the letter. "Among other fundamental errors, Judge Merchan admitted into evidence plainly inadmissible, irrelevant, and prejudicial testimony against President Trump, while limiting President Trump’s ability to rebut it."
The judge's refusal to recuse himself has been met with criticism from both sides of the political aisle, including a left-wing legal analyst who claimed Merchan “absolutely should have recused himself," per the letter.
The letter also requested documents related to Loren Merchan's work with the Democratic Party, and her ties to Vice President Kamala Harris. It also requested all documents and communications referring or related to work performed by her company that refers to the indictment, prosecution, or conviction of Trump for the period April 1, 2023, to the present.
The committee said the requests are part of their work of "conducting oversight of politically motivated prosecutions by state and local officials."
Loren Merchan is expected to turn over the requested documents by the close of business day on Aug. 8.
[JustTheNews] Texas has won another lawsuit against the Biden administration, this time one that requires it to finish building the border wall.
The ruling was issued May 29, with a 60-day window for appeal. Because the Biden administration didn’t appeal by July 29, the court’s order remains in full effect.
The ruling covers two consolidated lawsuits, one filed by the Texas General Land Office under its former commissioner, George P. Bush, and the state of Texas; the other was filed by Missouri and Texas. Both were filed in the U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas McAllen Division. The first names the president, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and DHS as defendants. The second names them and U.S. Customs and Border Protection and its director as defendants.
It also follows one issued in March that handed Texas a win in the consolidated cases.
The lawsuits argue the president and Mayorkas violated federal law and asked the court to instruct them to follow the law and use funds appropriated by Congress for their intended purpose.
In 2020 and 2021, Congress allocated roughly $1.4 billion to fund the construction of a barrier system along the southwest border. On his first day in office, President Joe Biden ordered construction be halted. Because contracts had already been implemented, it cost taxpayers an initial $6 million, then $3 million a day for the border wall not to be built. Materials that had already been paid to build the wall were left to rust on the ground, The Center Square reported.
In October 2021, Missouri and Texas sued the president and Mayorkas, requesting the court to order them to complete border wall construction. The GLO also sued, which owns over 500,000 acres of land near the U.S.-Mexico border, with an estimated 31 linear miles along the Rio Grande. When Gov. Greg Abbott began building Texas’ own border wall, the area where it was first constructed was on GLO land.
In response to the lawsuits, Mayorkas, as he has in nearly every lawsuit filed against him, argued he has “discretion” to change or implement policies how he sees fit. In this case, DHS argued that regardless of the statutory language stipulating that funds should be used to construct the border wall and barriers, Mayorkas had discretion over how the funds could be spent.
As the cases were consolidated and progressed, Mayorkas reallocated border wall funding to focus on environmental projects and maintenance repairs instead.
Judge Drew Tipton granted the plaintiff’s requests for a permanent injunction, stating they “have demonstrated success on the merits of their claims brought under the Administrative Procedures Act for violation of the Consolidated Appropriations Act.”
Tipton ordered the federal government, respective agencies, officers, employees and others “enjoined and restrained from implementing a July 22 Amended Plan” to halt border wall construction. He also prohibited the federal government from obligating border wall construction funds “toward mitigation and remediation efforts, repair of existing barrier, so-called system attribute installation at existing sites, or other similar purposes,” saying they can only be spent on “the construction of physical barriers, such as additional walls, fencing, buoys, etc.”
Tipton also notes that the case “is unique from most APA cases” because the plaintiffs challenged a directive issued by Mayorkas via a memo, not an agency regulation. He explains that Mayorkas could “simply re-obligate the appropriations at issue” by removing or rescinding his memo. But “the mere removal of the DHS Plan would do nothing to prevent DHS from making the same unlawful spending decisions if it so chose,” he explains, which is why he issued a permanent injunction. He said his order provides “more relief” and “leaves intact the numerous obligations and policies within the Plan that Plaintiffs do not challenge.” He also dismissed any remaining claims of the Biden administration.
In response, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said, “This is a final victory against Biden’s attempt to defund the border wall. His Administration illegally sought to prevent the construction of the border wall and illegally attempted to repurpose the money allocated for American safety and sovereignty, working instead to keep the border open.”
The GLO, Texas and Missouri “sued and won to stop their unlawful scheme,” he said. “Now, the Administration has thrown in the towel by declining to appeal their defeat and will be legally required to build the wall.”
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[Breitbart] Declaring “far-right hatred” the immediate challenge for the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced a rollout of facial recognition technology on Thursday night, sparking warnings by civil liberty advocates Big Brother Watch about the encroaching surveillance state.
The UK has seen a series of protests and riots in several towns across England this week, with authorities bracing for what they suspect could be more on Friday night. These indicents of violence follow the mass stabbing of children at a summer holiday activity club on Monday.
17-year-old Rwandan-heritage Alex Rudakubana
…the attack in Southport/Merseyside. We only learnt his name today…
was arrested and subsequently charged with murder and attempted murder, and having appeared before a judge on Thursday will now not be seen again until October with his next court date.
Speaking on Thursday night in a speech addressing the riots in the country — if not so much the deadly attack that sparked them — Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer listed his responses to the unrest, including a crackdown with a new cross-border police command. Of the tools to be rolled out to stifle dissent, Sir Keir named: “wider deployment of facial recognition technology, and preventative action: criminal behaviour orders to restrict their movement, before they can even board a train”.
[Bee] In a historic meeting today former Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton met with current presidential nominee Kamala Harris to work on improving Harris's black accent.
The meeting came after Harris's campaign rally this week in Atlanta where some accused Harris of affecting a rather flimsy black accent.
"With my extensive experience of campaigning and pandering to black communities, I just had to step in and offer to help," explained Clinton. "Kamala has her heart in the right place but I think everybody was just having a hard time believing that accent."
Harris turned down an initial offer for help from President Biden who said that his years growing up in black churches and protesting for civil rights with George Washington Carver could help Harris's black authenticity. But when Clinton offered her expertise, Harris said she just couldn't refuse.
At publishing time, inside sources report that Clinton is even considering loaning Harris her famed bottle of hot sauce that she keeps in her bag at all times.
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[JPost] Another one bites the dust
Mohammed al-Jabari's role in the terror group was to finance weapon manufacturing infrastructure for the Islamic Jihad in northern Gaza.
The IDF killed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's deputy head of weapons production, Mohammed al-Jabari, in a targeted intelligence-based operation, the Israeli military said on Friday morning.
According to the IDF, Al-Jabari was responsible for financing weapon manufacturing infrastructure for the Islamic Jihad in northern Gaza.
Al-Jabari was also reportedly in charge of the distribution of salaries and funds to the organization's terrorists and actively participated in efforts to restore the group's rocket manufacturing capabilities and infrastructure.
The IDF emphasized that before the strike, which eliminated Al-Jabari, steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians through the usage of "precise munitions, surveillance, and additional intelligence."
30 terrorists killed
In addition to the strike, IDF troops of the 162nd Division have continued operational activities in the area of Rafah, resulting in the elimination of approximately 30 terrorists in the last 24 hours, the military continued.
The troops carried out "precise, intelligence-based operational activities" to eliminate the terrorists, the IDF said. They also added that the attacks were done "during close-quarters encounters and in aerial strikes."
Tunnel identification
In addition to the elimination of terrorists, troops of the IDF's 16th Brigade began operations in central Gaza that resulted in the finding of a terror tunnel after a group of terrorists emerged from it to attack the troops.
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Gotto be a concern:how do these Jews know where we are?
While almost the entire world is discussing the delivery of the first F-16s to Ukraine and news from Venezuela, the behind-the-scenes struggle continues in Russia. Not only is Shoigu's team being cleaned out, but something is also happening to the witnesses in this case. 1/12 pic.twitter.com/QvhnqXjS7s
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While almost the entire world is discussing the delivery of the first F-16s to Ukraine and news from Venezuela, the behind-the-scenes struggle continues in Russia. Not only is Shoigu's team being cleaned out, but something is also happening to the witnesses in this case. 1/12 pic.twitter.com/QvhnqXjS7s
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I wonder if, eventually, we'll find out that Prigozhin wasn't wacked because of Wagner but because his business as supplier to Russian military conflicted with this group.
[NY Post] See the OLD photo and then the courtroom drawing. They're doing the Trayvon thing again
The UK teen accused of fatally stabbing three little girls and wounding 10 others at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class was identified for the first time Thursday as Axel Rudakubana.
The 17-year-old, who was born in Wales to Rwandan parents, smiled during an initial appearance Thursday in Liverpool Magistrates’ Court.
He is charged with the murders of Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, as well as 10 counts of attempted murder for stabbing eight other children along with two adults who tried to help them at the kids’ event Monday in Southport.
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Irish rabbi...a leading expert and practitioner of this important rite
Something about fondling and genital mutilation, I'm sure. Did he also swallow the foreskin and apply saliva to the injured member for immunization purposes?
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The British Authorities have finally had enough of this lawless behavior, and are deploying facial recognition camera technology to make sure that the protestors get theirs too, those filthy racist bigots.
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Security boosted for Royals
As thousands of bloodthirsty mohels
Bash Muslim and Trans
Britons protesting plans
To withhold care from goys and from girls!
Given that President Biden is no longer running things…
[GEO.TV] US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The man who made Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter look competent, if only by comparison.... told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington is committed to defending Israel’s security "against all threats from Iran," the White House said, after the liquidation of a top Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... leader in Tehran.
Biden, who was joined on the call by Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut, Joe's intended successor'... , also emphasised the "ongoing efforts to de-escalate broader tensions in the region," the White House said in a statement.
The call between the leaders also came after Israel announced it had "eliminated Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut".
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The Great White Father in Washington speaks with a forked tongue.
[ZeroHedge] Twenty years ago such an incident would be widely regarded in the UK and Europe as a terrorist attack. In the woke haze of 2024, though, the 17-year-old child of Rwandan migrants who went on a stabbing spree at a kids dance recital in the town of Southport, England is treated as a run-of-the-mill criminal. The response from the British public is one of rage as riots erupt across the country.
Following a long running pattern of information suppression when it comes to migrant crimes, very little data has been released by authorities concerning the attacker's background or possible motives. What is known is that despite leaving three dead children and ten others injured in the streets of Southport, journalists have sought to humanize the attacker, likely because of his Rwandan migrant family.
UK officials have adopted a blackout policy on migrant violence (including the children of migrants who tend to be more easily radicalized) and have even launched programs to gaslight the public into accepting these tragedies as the new normal; a matter that needs to be embraced with quiet compassion.
After the stabbing, apparent false reports of the perpetrator being a Muslim migrant named Ali Al-Shakati appeared to originate from a July 29 article on the website “Channel 3 Now” that was later updated to remove in-text references to “Ali Al-Shakati.” The media has "fact checked" this report dishonestly - They state that the real attacker was born in the UK, but they initially refrained from mentioning his family's migrant background or his ideological influences. The chances are high that this information will never be willingly released to the public should it put the UK government's open border agenda at risk.
Political leaders and various news platforms are already painting the alleged perpetrator and his family in the best possible light; describing them as "quiet and pleasant" and the attacker as a "loner from a nice family." This kind of velvet glove approach is never afforded to white, male and British people accused of criminal acts. In fact, activist Tommy Robinson was recently arrested and charged under UK terror provisions for nothing more than showing a movie at a patriot rally, but the guy who masked up to plan and execute a mass stabbing of British children will not be treated as a terrorist.
The narrative is being established that the murders have nothing to do with his migrant or ideological background and are a product of "mental instability." If ideological leanings are admitted then the citizenry may demand that migrants be removed, and thus the Cloward-Piven strategy in play in the UK would be undermined.
The core problem with the mass importation of aliens from third-world societies is that they often regard extreme violence as the first solution to any given problem. Brutality in these cultures is normal and accepted. Personal disputes are handled with machetes and the spilling of blood, not debates or even a fair fight. There is no expectation of honor when it comes to the targeting of innocents; this is not a root principle of third-world zealots.
The more western nations are saturated with the global dregs, the more often these kinds of devastating attacks will occur. Until, eventually, the indigenous public becomes fed up and takes to the streets to rid their communities of the threat.
Roma gypsies burn down a neighbourhood in Leeds , The police run away. Muslims surround and attack a police station in Rochdale, The police hide away inside the station. Native British gather in London to protest the murder of 3 young girls ,The police assault a protester. pic.twitter.com/Qsq8M4Wixz
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Dangerous to pass judgement on somebody's actions based on a 10 second video clip but that looks like a clear case of police brutality to me. WTF? What did that guy do to deserve a beating like that? I think we all know damn good and well what would happen if that was a black guy in America.
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[ARABNEWS] A woman who police say helped vandalize the homes of the Brooklyn Museum’s leaders with red paint during a wave of pro-Paleostinian protests has been arrested on hate crimes charges.
Taylor Pelton, 28, was arrested Wednesday on charges of criminal mischief and criminal mischief as a hate crime, police said.
Bet she turns out to be an Antifa cadre making bank for the work.
Police say Pelton was one of six people seen on surveillance video vandalizing the homes of Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak and museum President and Chief Operating Officer Kimberly Trueblood on June 12.
Pelton was arraigned Wednesday night and released with court supervision, a spokesperson for the Brooklyn district attorney’s office said.
In an email, Pelton’s attorney, Moira Meltzer-Cohen, criticized "the increasing trend of characterizing Paleostine solidarity actions as hate crimes."
According to court papers, Pelton was part of a group of people seen on surveillance video spray-painting red paint the homes of Pasternak and Trueblood and hanging banners that with slogans like "BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS" AND "WHITE SUPREMACIST, FUNDS GENOCIDE."
An inverted red triangle that authorities say is a symbol used by Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... to identify Israeli military targets was sprayed onto Pasternak’s door, according to court papers.
The other people seen in the videos are still being sought, the district attorney said.
Pelton’s attorney wrote that the willingness of prosecutors “to endorse the rhetorical collapse of Zionist ideology and protected religious identity, in order to criminalize criticism of Israel, signals a troubling departure from the principles on which our legal and political systems rest.”
The paint splashing happened days after hundreds of pro-Palestinians protesters marched to the museum, occupied its lobby, vandalized artworks and hung a “Free Palestine” banner from its roof. Police arrested several dozen people.
The march on museum was a project of Within Our Lifetime, one of the many tentacles of the pro-Hamas section of Antifa, which increases the odds that our miscreant is that sort of nasty Fifth Columnist.
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[REGNUM] After the death of Hamas Politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, the movement faced the question of who would coordinate its actions in the future. The vacant post was quickly filled by "Palestinian veteran" Khaled Mashal, who has about 40 years of membership in the group behind him. Of these, 20 were spent as head of the Politburo. Despite the fact that Mashal has so far headed this body with the prefix "acting", few doubt his retention in this post. Both Palestinian and Israeli sources call Mashal nothing less than "candidate number one" - despite the fact that a string of supporters and opponents of the deceased Haniyeh is reaching for the throne.
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One of the instructions I received on hand to hand is to drive your opponent's nose into the skull. If done just right it can be a killing blow or so I was told.
Born in 1999 in Tiaret, Algeria, Khelif has been boxing since she was a child and has always competed in women's categories. In her career, she competed in the Women's World Boxing Championships in New Delhi in 2018 (finishing in 17th place), then competed in Russia the following year. She competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, reaching all the way to the quarterfinals, and she finished second in the 2022 Women's World Championships in Istanbul.
Everything seemed to be running smoothly until the 2023 World Cup, organized by the International Boxing Association. The Russia-led IBA, which is not recognized by the International Olympic Committee, disqualified Khelif after a gender eligibility test allegedly found she has XY chromosomes. IBA president Umar Kremlev has said that both Khelif and Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting, who allegedly had a similar test result, “were trying to deceive their colleagues and pretend to be women.” Khelif has contested the allegations.
The controversies of the past few days took serious issues such as hyperandrogynism—the excessive production of testosterone by female bodies—and intersexuality, in which someone is born with sex characteristics that don't fit neatly into traditional definitions of male and female, and debased them. They then further poisoned an already very sensitive debate around transgender women's participation in the Olympics and sports competitions in general.
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I was in a conversation about such things with someone dear to me and still learning about life, and the posit was, "If he has had the chop and been on the hormone stew for a couple years, its fine."
I will present this boxing / martial sports match-up without comment.
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"All told, Russia has released 16 prisoners. Eight Russians who were being held in the West will be sent home as well. The 16 prisoners from Russia that Russia has released include four Americans, five Germans, seven Russian citizens who were political prisoners in their own country"
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[LB] Fighting continues along the entire front line, in particular in the Donetsk direction.
by Ivanna Kapustyanska
Since the beginning of the day, 76 combat clashes took place at the front. The defense forces stop the enemy, hold the lines and destroy the plans of the Russians. At the same time, the occupiers continue to actively operate in the Pokrovsk and Toretsk directions, according to the General Staff report.
In the Kharkiv direction, two enemy attacks took place in the Vovchansk region. The battle continues. The situation is under control.
In the Kupyan direction, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to advance to our positions in the Andriivka area during the day. Three enemy attacks are still ongoing near Stelmakhivka and Pishchany. In total, five clashes were recorded in the direction. The occupiers dropped aerial bombs on the Novoosynovo and Petropavlivka districts.
The aggressor increased the number of attacks to three in the Lyman direction. Fighting took place near Makiivka and Torskyi.
In the Siversk direction, the enemy twice unsuccessfully tried to break through our defenses in the Vyimka area. Fighting is still going on in five locations near Spirnyi, Ivanodaryivka, and Verkhnyokamyansk. The situation is under control.
In the Kramatorsk direction, our defenders continue to repulse the attack of the occupiers near Chasovoy Yar. In the districts of Klishchiivka, Ivanivskyi and Andriivka, the enemy suffered losses and retreated.
In the Toretsk direction, 12 assaults took place in the North and New York areas, where the enemy is still attacking. Also, the occupiers were repulsed near Zalizny and Toretsk. The latter and Dilyivka were bombarded eight times by anti-aircraft guns. In addition, the invaders hit Diliivka three times with the weapons of army aviation.
The greatest activity of the enemy currently remains in the Pokrovsky direction. Clashes of varying intensity have started here 36 times today. Currently, fighting is still going on in nine locations in the districts of Novooleksandrivka, Ivanivka, Vozdvizhenka, Svyridonivka, Zhelannogo, and Yasnobrodivka. During the day, the occupiers' aviation bombarded Ivanivka, Novotroitskyi, Grodivka, and Timofiivka. In addition, the terrorists carried out four airstrikes by NARs in the direction of Alexandropol.
Fighting continues in the Kurakhiv direction. Four assaults were repulsed near Krasnohorivka, Paraskoviivka and Kostyantynivka - the enemy suffered losses.
The aggressor did not conduct active offensive actions in the Vremivsk direction . Instead, the enemy aircraft struck seven strikes near Bogoyavlenka, Novodonetsky and Neskuchny.
In the Orihiv direction, there were two unsuccessful combat clashes for the occupiers in the area of Malaya Tokmachka. And the enemy fired about fifty unguided rockets in the direction of Pyatikhatok, Gulyaipol and Lobkovo.
In the Dnieper direction, our defenders repulsed one assault on the left bank of the Dnieper. Ukrainian troops are controlling the situation and exhausting the enemy along the entire line of battle and in the rear.
Groups of the 8th separate regiment of the Special Operations Forces stopped the breakthrough of the Russians to one of the settlements in the Toretsk direction.
This was reported by the SSO press center.
Fierce battles were captured on video by SSO fighters. "The occupiers are counting their losses, we are continuing to work," the Special Operations Forces emphasized.
[IsraelTimes] Military says Ismail Al-Ghoul was member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force, directed terrorists on how to film, distribute videos of attacks on Israeli troops
The IDF confirmed carrying out a strike in Gaza City on Wednesday that killed Al Jazeera reporter Ismail Al-Ghoul, and said he was a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force who participated in the October 7 onslaught.
In addition to his participation in the massacres in southern Israel, Al-Ghoul also instructed other terror operatives on how to film and distribute videos of attacks on Israeli troops, according to the military.
“This activity is an integral part of the terror organization’s military action,” the army said.
“The IDF and the Shin Bet are making every effort to attack and eliminate terrorists who took part in the October 7 massacre and will continue to do so,” the statement added.
The airstrike also killed Al Jazeera cameraman Ramy El-Rify.
In a statement on Wednesday, Hamas condemned the killings as a “heinous crime” which it said was “aimed at terrorizing and silencing” Palestinian journalists as they reported “the ongoing genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip for nearly 10 months.”
Al Jazeera, which broadcasts in English and Arabic, has been the focus of months of criticism from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government.
In early May, the government banned Al Jazeera in Israel, shuttering and raiding its offices, alleging it was actively harming national security. Last month, the Tel Aviv District Court extended the ban on the network.
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 wounded in a separate strike, of being a deputy company commander with Hamas.
Al Jazeera has fiercely denied Israel’s allegations and accused it of systematically targeting Al Jazeera employees in the Gaza Strip.
Thousands of terrorists broke through the border fence from Gaza on October 7, rampaging through Israel’s southern towns and murdering some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, while carrying out other atrocities like mutilation and sexual abuse.
They also took 251 hostages, 111 of whom are believed to still be held captive in Gaza, including the bodies of 39 confirmed dead by the IDF.
They are not the same.
One is an enemy combatant that stages events.
One is neutral and reports unbiased news for civilians.
Writing PRESS on your chest does not change a thing.
We it Lincoln who asked,
"If you call a dogs tail a leg - How many legs does the dog have?
Four - Just because you call it a tail, doesnt make it a tail."
[FoxNews] Over 20,000 migrants have already been approved for resettlement in the US
The Biden/Harris administration has "super-charged" a "Lawful Pathways" program that has helped admit tens of thousands of people from Latin America.
The Safe Mobility Office Initiative, launched in May 2023 and given expanded capacity this spring, has worked to fly tens of thousands of people to the U.S. through the refugee resettlement process, despite those people being of nationalities that have rarely qualified for refugee status, according to a Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) analysis.
According to the report, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) personnel and United Nations have set up offices in Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica and Guatemala that have granted refugee status to 21,000 people from seven different Latin American countries in the first year of the program, with half of those having already arrived in the country as of May.
The refugees are being flown to the U.S. from Haiti, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Guatemala, Ecuador and Colombia, the report notes, though even greater numbers may have been flown in through June and July after the administration expanded the program to allow for migrants from Honduras and El Salvador.
The expansion of the program comes despite the U.S. traditionally only granting refugee status to individuals who can credibly claim that they cannot return to their home country out of a "well-founded fear" of persecution on the basis of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group, but the CIS analysis argued that many of those coming to the U.S. would more normally be classified as economic migrants.
The report cites a 2024 Mixed Migration Centre survey of program participants that found 90% indicated they wanted to travel to the U.S. for economic opportunities and higher living standards, not to flee potential persecution.
The administration has also raised the allotted slots to admit refugees from Latin America, from less than 5,000 when President Biden took office to 50,000 in 2024.
"In the refugee pathway, we aim to resettle between 35,000 and 50,000 individuals in Fiscal Year 2024, an historic and ambitious goal that would amount to an increase in refugee resettlement from the Western Hemisphere of over 450 percent from last year," Marta Youth, the principal deputy assistant secretary for the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugee and Migration, said in testimony before a congressional committee in March.
The administration has justified the expansion of the program by arguing that many of the migrants would have used dangerous migration corridors before illegally appearing at the U.S.' southern border, a justification some say abuses the U.S. refugee program.
"We have a visa process so they can safely go to an embassy and safely apply for a visa and safely fly to the U.S.," Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation's Border Security and Immigration Center, told Fox News Digital. "This is to completely abuse and twist the refugee process. It’s abusive and not lawful."
Ries also argued that the program does not help the source countries of the migration and could be a danger to American citizens, noting that the speed of processing applications raises questions about how well the migrants are vetted.
"There isn't going to be a diplomatic solution, unfortunately, in the short term… particularly when you're dealing with authoritarians that are trying to figure out how to stay in power."
we already have seen Audio Forensics reports indicating 3 sets of different gun shots types.
Immediately after the first reports of the shooting, I heard 3 sets of different gun shots, and I didn't need to use anything fancy, just my ears.
As far as someone shooting Crooks before Trump was shot, there is no audio evidence of that.
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[REGNUM] "Western partners" continue to plunder Russian money frozen in European banks. By October, the "Big Seven" will agree on the terms of a $50 billion loan to Ukraine, and Kiev will receive this money at the expense of Russian assets. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced the approval of such a loan in a conversation with Reuters on July 26. According to her, the US is seeking guarantees from the EU that Russian assets will remain frozen for a long time. As is known, at the time of the start of the SVO, about half of the gold and foreign exchange reserves of the Bank of Russia were in the West - about 300 billion out of 640 billion dollars that were blocked. Of this, only about $5-6 billion are in the United States, and the majority are in Europe. For example, $210 billion are concentrated on the international platform Euroclear in Belgium. Continued on Page 49
UK: Jihad preacher Anjem Choudary, who called for Pamela Geller to be executed on national television, gets 28 years of prison dawahhttps://t.co/BkumTUnT2M
Anjem Choudary ...self-proclaimed holy man who used to work for Omar Mohammed Bakdri as spokesman for al-Muhajiroun. Anjem is a loathesome little attention prostitute who is to be heard cheering for the home team anytime anybody with a turban manages to slaughter a group of unarmed infidels. Anjem was born in the UK in 1967 and is, as you would expect, of Pakistaini descent. The Ghost of Dante is of the opinion that when he goes to hell his knees will be broken once a month. He was in jug for awhile for supporting the Islamic State...
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Thanks to Biden, Scholz et al colluding with Putin in the rotten exchange deal every citizen of any Western nation is now a potential valuable hostage who would provide leverage to free the likes of Choudary or the 9/11 masterminds.
Islamists in every corner of the world have an interest to gain power and prestige by forcing the West to release top-tier Islamist figures serving long prison terms by way of taking hostages.
As in the 1970s, Western nations giving in to such pressure increases the risk to Western citizens in general.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Intense fighting erupted in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, on Wednesday, as the Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese army and its allied armed movements clashed with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Eyewitnesses told Sudan Tribune the festivities were among the most violent mostly peaceful in El Fasher since the conflict began in May. The battles involved heavy artillery, drones, and Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s.
The army launched airstrikes targeting RSF positions, attempting to destroy heavy weaponry used to attack central El Fasher and key locations.
The RSF responded with anti-aircraft fire and renewed artillery shelling. Local authorities reported over 60 deaths and nearly 100 injuries from RSF shelling in recent days.
Both sides also deployed drones in El Fasher, further escalating the violence. Heavy weapons festivities continued throughout Wednesday in the southern and eastern parts of the city.
The intensified fighting has triggered a mass displacement of civilians and internally displaced persons (IDPs) towards areas controlled by the Sudan Liberation Movement in Tawila and Jebel Marra.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on Wednesday called for an end to repeated attacks on hospitals and a blockade of medical supplies in Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ’s El Fasher, warning they are causing a rising corpse count.
More than 2,170 maimed people have been treated at MSF-supported hospitals in the city since fighting escalated 80 days ago, and over 300 have died from their injuries, MSF said in a statement.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have held MSF supply trucks for the past four weeks, threatening to deplete essential resources at Saudi Hospital, the last functioning public hospital in El Fasher, the statement said.
"The warring parties must prioritize the protection of healthcare facilities and ensure unhindered access to medical care for all," said Stephane Doyon, head of MSF’s emergency response in Sudan.
The RSF did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The repeated attacks on hospitals, including a shelling of Saudi hospital on July 29 that killed three caregivers and injured 25 people, highlighted a disregard for international humanitarian law and civilian lives, MSF said.
MSF said its trucks, carrying essential surgical kits and therapeutic food for malnourished children, had been held in Kabkabiya by the RSF.
"If the blockade on humanitarian aid is not lifted urgently, there is going to be an even greater corpse count," Doyon said.
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Reporter: "Trump has said repeatedly that he could have gotten the hostages out without giving anything in exchange. What do you say to that? What do you say to former President Trump now?"
President Biden: "Why didn't he do it when he was president?"
… - Three of the American hostages (Evan Gershkovich - 3/23 and Olsu Kurmasheva - 10/23) were arrested in 2023 - under Joes term.
- Paul Whelan wasn’t convicted of espionage until 2020 - under Joes term.
- Vladimir Kara-Murza wasn’t arrested until 2022 - under Joes term.
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Time Issue
Paul Whelan was arrested in Russia in December 2018, and convicted of espionage in June 2020.
So about 6 months after the conviction was Trumps time in Office. However, 3.5 Years was Biden's responsibility.
BTW:
Do a quick look into Whelan's whole history, and it is full of issues. Including a Marine 2008 Bad Conduct discharge for multiple counts of larceny.
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You know.
I have a little theory going on that the reason they haven't banged the gong on this guy and are trying to drag him across January, is that even the most virulent We Need a Woman President supporters are like, "Eh, maybe we don't want Harris as the first."
Biden literally wandered off during the event and got on the aircraft that brought the prisoners in.
Is he so far gone he thinks it was somehow an aircraft he was supposed to board?
No one is talking about how Biden climbed onto the jet after the Americans already got off.
[NY Post] The two illegal Jordanian migrants who are charged with trying to breach Marine Corps Base Quantico in May posted thousands of dollars in bail and were allowed to leave federal custody, The Post can exclusively reveal.
Hasan Yousef Hamdan, 32, and Mohammad Khair Dabous, 28, were released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention despite their immigration status — Hamdan had crossed into the country illegally in April and Dabous had overstayed his student visa and is subject to removal proceedings, law enforcement sources told The Post.
They were arrested on May 3 for trespassing onto the military installation and handed over to ICE officers because of their immigration statuses.
It’s still unknown why the men allegedly tried to get onto the base.
The site is home to the FBI Academy and FBI Laboratory, as well as a Defense Intelligence Agency facility and several major US Marine Corps commands — including the unit that flies the Marine One presidential helicopter.
"Big-time intel failure, security failure," a federal law enforcement source told The Post.
"If it wasn’t an act of terrorism, why aren’t the government officials releasing the details of this? What was the intent?"
The men both posted bond in their ICE cases — with Hamdan’s set at $15,000 and Dabous’ set at $10,000 — and were released in early June, according to federal law enforcement sources.
Hamdan and Dabous were charged with misdemeanor trespassing on military property and appeared before a judge for the first time on July 22, when they were ordered released on the conditions that they show up to court for their immigration proceedings and stay away from Quantico or other military bases, according to the court documents, which were first reported by Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies.
Federal prosecutors supported their releases on those conditions, according to the court documents.
Hamdan entered the US illegally via the southern border in San Diego in April, when he was released due to a lack of detention space, federal law enforcement sources told The Post.
Dabous was in the US illegally after overstaying his student visa, sources said.
…But instead of, you know, deporting them or at least keeping them locked up, the Biden-run ICE agency allowed both men to post bail and reenter society as free men in early June, according to the New York Post.
They later returned to court on July 22nd to face misdemeanor trespassing charges and were again ordered released on the condition that they continue to show up to court and that they stay away from U.S. military bases.
Learning just THIS much has been a major hassle, according to Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
“The Department of Justice, Department of Defense, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the FBI all circled wagons to guard even the identities of the two Jordanians against five written congressional inquiries, a sixth by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin seeking government briefings about the incident, and most recently a subpoena by the Republican-led House Homeland Security Committee of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas,” he noted for CIS.
“Government lawyers went so far as to refuse a Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) Freedom of Information Act request on grounds that releasing their names was a ‘clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy’ and of ‘minimal public interest’ despite the congressional and media inquiries that reached a May 16 White House press briefing where President Biden’s spokesperson refused to answer,” he added.
In other words, the Biden administration jumped through hoops to protect the poor ol’ criminal aliens.
The two men are among a group of at least 16 suspected terrorists who’ve made it into the U.S. via America’s porous border before being caught and apprehended.
“If I am in law enforcement, I am looking at this and saying there are way too many numbers for it to be a one-off,” terrorism expert Seamus Hughes recently told the New York Post. “Alarm bells are ringing and it is a significant concern for law enforcement.”
Below are some of the suspected terrorists:
Carlos Obed Yepez-Bedoya
Yepez-Bedoya, a Columbian suspected of being part of a terrorist group, was caught in Texas this past February.
Tajik nationals
A sting in June led to the arrests of eight terrorist suspects all from Tajikistan.
“They had all been apprehended after illegally crossing the border into the United States near San Diego, some six months before being taken down in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles,” the Post noted.
The eight were reportedly talking about bombs before their arrests.
Basel Bassel Ebbadi
When questioned by a Border Patrol agent after trying to cross into the U.S. in March, Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 21, readily admitted, “I’m going to try to make a bomb.”
After being arrested, he admitted to being a member of Hezbollah.
“The only reason we caught this guy is because he’s a moron,” a Border Patrol source claimed. “If he never said anything, he would have gotten through.”
And then only God knows what would have happened…
Somali extremist
A suspected terrorist from Somalia was allowed to enter the U.S. through California in March of 2023 despite being listed on a watchlist as a “confirmed member of al Shabaab.” Due to a “mismatch,” his status on the watchlist was ignored.
“He somehow flew to Minnesota and was arrested thereafter federal authorities realized that the mismatch decision was a mistake. As to what drew him to Minnesota, that remains unclear,” according to the Post.
It would be nice, but really Hamas confirmation is not necessary. Israel is the party with the advanced science labs and computer programs and stuff.
[GEO.TV] Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... member Izzat al-Rashq said in a post on Telegram that there is no confirmation over the Israeli claim that it killed Deif last month.
"Confirming or denying the martyrdom of any of the Qassam leaders is a matter for the leadership of the Qassam Brigades and the leadership of the movement," the post said, reported Al Jazeera.
"Unless either of them announced, none of the news published in the media or by any other party can be confirmed."
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It's hard to confirm what that fine red mist used to be...
announcement is official although it is from an Assistant Secretary of State. FWIW, there was voter ID required and no vote harvesting and minimal absentee voting
[MSN] The top U.S diplomat for Latin America said opposition candidate Edmundo González won Venezuela's presidential elections and beat strongman Nicolas Maduro by millions of votes, signaling that the Biden administration is getting ready to officially recognize González as the country's president-elect.
Given the overwhelming evidence obtained by documented proof of millions of votes cast, Maduro and his representatives should recognize Edmundo González as the winner of the July 28 presidential election," Brian Nichols, the assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere, said during an emergency meeting of the Organization of the Americas States on Wednesday to discuss the results of the Venezuelan election
"Given the clear evidence, the world’s governments should also acknowledge Edmundo González’s overwhelming electoral victory," he said. "Those that fail to do so are only enabling Maduro and his representatives to attempt a massive fraud and disregard for the rule of law and democratic principles."
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Sec. Blinken released a statement after the one by the Assistant Secretary.
Nothing from Biden or Harris yet. Maybe waiting to make a joint statement with other countries.
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[Bee] Americans Thankful That Socialists Rigging Elections Only Happens In Venezuela
Following socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro's use of military force to maintain political power after an election in which the opposition seemed to have won by more than 30 percentage points, Americans across the United States have expressed their extreme relief that socialists rigging elections is a phenomenon confined to Venezuela.
According to numerous US citizens, socialists cheating in elections and undercutting the will of the people is an "unimaginable abomination." Over 98% of Americans polled say they are "incredibly grateful" that it could never happen in America.
"Oh, yeah, it's absolutely tragic what's going on down there," said Steve McGannon, an American citizen. "I'm so glad we live in a country where socialists would never dare to steal elections. I mean, imagine if one of our political parties were to harvest ballots, insist on non-citizens voting, use underhanded methods to secure an election, and brand anyone questioning voting integrity an "extremist conspiracy theorist," all in the name of safe and secure elections. I'm so glad that sort of thing only happens in countries like Venezuela — could never be the US, am I right?"
Republican leaders across the country have taken a strong stance on the matter by issuing extremely strongly worded tweets, and then going off to play golf at the country club. When asked for comment, several prominent Democrats blushed coyly and assured the American people that they would never do such a thing.
At publishing time, Americans had started giving thanks that graphically inappropriate displays of public nudity only happened in godless places like Paris.
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Better screen grab Harris' high-five of the Madura Numbers. Something something accept the Madura Numbers and just get over it.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Triathletes dripping with the Seine’s sewer-soiled water must have been thinking what the rest of us now know: This is the crappiest Olympics in recent history! Literally.
It’s taken nine years, $1.5 billion of environmental remediation and countless 5-hour workdays (this is France, folks) for the Paris 2024 organizers to deem the E. coli-tainted river safe enough for athletes to swim in. Just.
Last-minute bacterial tests saw the scheduled men’s triathlon event bumped from Tuesday to Wednesday this week, presumably to give lifeguards a chance to fish out a few floating bonbons.
When the boys did swim, many joked about the water quality. ‘I’m definitely going to be visiting the bathroom later,’ South African Jamie Riddle said after the race. ‘I swallowed gallons and gallons of water, so that’s going to be a fun, post-race party!’
But this foul river farce is the least of our Olympic problems. On Thursday, an almighty gender ruckus erupted after an Italian lady boxer forfeited her match in just 46 seconds after taking two straight punches to the face.
‘I had to safeguard my life,’ Italy’s Angela Carini told reporters after collapsing onto the mat in tears.
Her Algerian opponent, Imane Khelif, had been disqualified from last year's Women's World Championships after DNA tests reportedly ‘proved’ Khelif was intersex. Yet the International Olympic Committee – who don’t carry out testing of their own – inexplicably approved Khelif to play.
And while the Carini incident may go down as the most disturbing Paris snapshot, it will have stiff competition.
Last Friday, the opening ceremony fast descended into a rain-soaked Rocky Horror Show. Torch-bearing Serena Williams looked like she might toss up her croissants as she nauseously wobbled in the lead procession boat heading down the turdy Seine.
Maybe she’d caught sight of the Parisian private parts on display during the show’s odious parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. One of the performers suffered a wardrobe malfunction that left his testicle dangling out his sparking black undies. The eyeball-burning abomination was complete with a bearded drag queen and corpulent, self-described ‘love activist’ DJ Barbara Butch. Then some dude painted blue and wearing a thong emerged from a giant chafing dish. He was supposed to be Dionysus, the Greek god of – among other things – insanity and ritual madness.
Talking of insanity – the Olympic Committee are yet to give an honest answer as to why convicted Dutch pedophile Steven Van de Velde, who served time for raping a 12-year-old girl when he was 19, has been cleared to compete.
Last Supper?
No, thanks. I’m not hungry anymore.
But the athletes are starving.
Despite a pledge to run the ‘greenest ever Games’, Olympic Village caterers have reported a ‘very high demand’ for meat and egg products. A third of the ‘sustainably-sourced’ meals forced on the 15,000-odd athletes so far have been vegetarian or vegan. But, quelle surprise, the world elite don’t run on quinoa and locally sourced figs.
Meanwhile, our sports boys and gals have been forced into five-to-a-bathroom prison-style dorms with hard-as-rock, ‘eco-friendly’ cardboard beds, and no air conditioning. Things got so stinky steamy in close quarters that US tennis sensation Coco Gauff snitched on her roommates who’d escaped to a hotel room!
At least one golden girl is enjoying herself: America’s waning queen, Jill Biden. The Doctor – sans Joe – is all giggles in her ‘Farewell to Grandpa’ Era of the European tour, tossing back bubbly with Zendaya, Flavor Flav and Snoop Dog in the stands.
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A lot of places and medical offices down here, quit playing it. Too many customers saying change the ch. Or they would find another place to do business
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[SpectrumNews1] Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced Thursday that 499 non-citizen registrations from Ohio voter rolls. LaRose said it's part of a multi-phase, comprehensive audit of the state's voter registration database as the November election approaches.
“I swore an oath to uphold the constitution of our state, and that document clearly states that only United States citizens can participate in Ohio elections,” said LaRose in a statement. “That means I’m duty-bound to make sure people who haven’t yet earned citizenship in this country aren’t voting. If or when they do become citizens, I’ll be the first one to congratulate them and welcome them to the franchise, but until then the law requires us to remove ineligible registrations to prevent illegal voting.”
LaRose said in May, there was a review of voter records using identification records from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles. At that time, 136 voter registrations assigned to Ohio residents were found to have twice confirmed their non-citizenship status to the BMV. Eighty of them failed to respond to notices that asked them to confirm their citizenship status or cancel their registration. Local boards of elections are starting the removal of those registrations.
The removals announced Thursday are those who confirmed their non-citizen status to the BMV and have been confirmed to be as such. Additionally, these individuals also failed to respond to notices from LaRose's office asking if they can confirm their citizenship status or cancel their registration.
The United States of America has sent 12 warships to the Middle East, The Washington Post reports, citing a senior Pentagon official.
"The ships included the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and accompanying warships," the newspaper wrote.
In addition, the US authorities have sent a three-ship Wasp Amphibious Ready Group, which includes more than four thousand Marines, to the Middle East.
As reported by Regnum news agency, on July 31, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the military to launch a direct attack on Israel in retaliation for the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
Iran's permanent representative to the UN, Amir Saeed Irwani, said that the US is the biggest supporter of the Israeli regime in the region. Haniyeh's murder would not have been committed without the help of US intelligence, he believes. On July 31, the US, Great Britain and France blocked a draft UN Security Council statement proposed by Russia on the assassination of the Hamas politburo chief, Irwani added.
Middle East expert Mais Kurbanov believes that the world is on the threshold of a large-scale conflict in the Middle East, which could start at any moment. The orientalist recalled that Haniyeh was one of the prominent figures of Hamas and his death cannot go unpunished, Iran will not forgive this, a response will definitely follow.
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[Regnum] The Supreme Court of the Republic of Karelia recognized the actions of the occupation authorities and Finnish troops during the Great Patriotic War as genocide of the Soviet people, said Judge Natalya Ivanova.
“The court ruled to recognize as war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide of the Soviet people the established and newly identified crimes committed by the Nazi invaders, occupation authorities and Finnish troops on the territory of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (currently the Republic of Karelia) during the Great Patriotic War,” she said.
It is reported that the evidence presented to the court confirmed the facts of torture of Soviet civilians and prisoners of war by the occupiers. According to the data received, they were subjected to violence, forced to work and deprived of any medical care, kept in concentration camps.
In total, over 26 civilians and prisoners of war were killed during the occupation, many of them died of disease or hunger. In addition to killing innocent civilians, the occupiers destroyed populated areas, industrial and agricultural enterprises.
On July 19, the Supreme Court of Karelia began considering the application to recognize the actions of the Nazis in the territory of the Karelo-Finnish SSR from 1941 to 1944 as genocide. During this period, more than one hundred concentration camps operated in Karelia, created by the Finns. At least 86 thousand Soviet citizens suffered from the occupation. According to experts, the total damage from the actions of the Finnish authorities and troops amounted to more than 20 trillion rubles in terms of the current Russian currency exchange rate.
Related from regnum.ru Zakharova questions German President Steinmeier's humanity
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier opposed payments to non-Jewish Leningrad blockade survivors and personally encouraged Kiev to disrupt the Minsk agreements, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on August 1 in her Telegram channel.
In this way, she commented on the statements of Steinmeier, who, on the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, asked the Poles for forgiveness for the crimes of the Nazis and stated that war had returned to Europe allegedly due to the fault of the Russian side.
“This is said by a person who personally spoke out against paying compensation to non-Jewish Leningrad blockade survivors for the genocide of the civilian population of the northern capital!” she wrote.
Zakharova also recalled that the German president personally encouraged the Kiev regime to disrupt the Minsk agreements, which was admitted by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. In addition, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that it was Germany that repeatedly sponsored financially and politically coups in Ukraine and supplied the Ukrainian Armed Forces with tanks “in which Ukrainians are burning.”
“And this is said by a man… but is this said by a man?” she added.
Earlier, columnist Dragoljub Bosnic stated in an article for InfoBRICS that the European Union, led by Germany, is preparing to enter into an armed conflict with Russia. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic specified that the West is preparing for a direct armed conflict with Russia much faster than is believed in the East, in Moscow and Belgrade.
Russian officials have repeatedly noted that Moscow has no reason to fight NATO. Russian President Vladimir Putin has emphasized that Russia and the alliance have no territorial claims against each other, and that a full-scale conflict between them would put the world on the brink of World War III.
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[Regnum] Real honey differs from counterfeit even in color. This was stated on August 1 by the head of the interregional public organization "Interregional Union of Beekeepers" Alexander Kuks, commenting on the discovery of counterfeit honey in retail chains.
Roskachestvo conducted a study of honey from 16 private label brands of the largest retail chains, as well as inexpensive honey in chain retail. As a result, it was established that the products of none of the brands studied fully comply with the requirements of the legislation. The main methods of falsification included dilution with syrups and non-compliance of the product with the declared botanical name.
"There is natural bee honey, for which there is a GOST. This honey is tested by the veterinary service. There is also a confectionery product that is produced according to the TU developed by manufacturers. This product may or may not contain natural honey. Documents for such products are issued by the food industry, not the veterinary service. This product has nothing to do with bee products and does not comply with GOST," Kuks explained.
He pointed out that the incorrect botanical name means that, for example, honey contains more sunflower pollen and less linden pollen, but the honey is still called linden.
According to him, when buying honey in stores, you should pay attention to the label and find out whether the product is made according to GOST or TU. Unfortunately, confectioners have succeeded more than bees, he noted. Their products look more attractive than real honey, which does not have bright colors. The colors of the natural product are blurred and unsaturated, the beekeeper explained.
He added that, for example, the label may say "Raspberry Honey," but the jar contains a product with a pinkish tint. In reality, raspberry honey is light, light gray, and does not smell like raspberries. Confectioners add raspberry crumbs to such a product, but this does not apply to natural honey.
"To buy real honey, it is better to contact beekeepers. It is also best to buy honey in specialized honey shops, where there is a stricter check. Such shops work only with honey and strive to maintain their reputation and the trust of customers. You can also buy honey at specialized fairs and exhibitions, where the veterinary laboratory service examines the honey and issues the appropriate conclusions," he specified.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, during the study, Roskachestvo identified the main counterfeiters producing products under their own brand or private label: Medovaya Dolina LLC, Medovy Dom LLC, and TD Voyal LLC. The experts identified three types of counterfeiting: non-compliance with GOST standards for the ratio of fructose and glucose, proline content, and non-compliance with diastase standards.
SberZdorovye gastroenterologist Daria Utyumova said that ginger, lemon and honey, which contain ascorbic acid and B vitamins, help improve blood circulation and strengthen the body's immune system.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Paris has been subjected to 68 cyberattacks since the start of the Olympic Games. This was stated by French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, Agence France-Presse reports.
According to a French official, the cyberattacks were aimed directly at the resources of the Olympic facilities.
"All 68 cyber attacks were promptly identified and prevented," Attal said at a meeting of the French government.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the day of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, there was a disruption in the movement of high-speed TGV trains. Several fires broke out at railway facilities. About 800 thousand passengers in France were forced to stay at train stations on the day of the opening of the Olympic Games.
Investigators are studying the version of the possible involvement of an “anonymous group of opponents of the Olympics” in the sabotage on the railway tracks on the night of July 26.
The 2024 Olympic Games Organizing Committee has cancelled a press conference ahead of the opening ceremony without giving any reason.
Update: Berkeley trans nonbinary Antifa member and black studies academic Casey Goonan (Ph.D.) has now been federally charged over an arson domestic terrorist attack on police at the campus of @UCBerkeley.
…. domestic terrorism unit, found out it was allegedly Goonan who carried out the attack because he posted photos of his work on an antifa anarchist blog and was identified as the masked person on CCTV camera.
Antifa members regularly post under pseudonyms on anarchist blogs to claim responsibility for terrorist attacks targeting the state, law enforcement, and citizens.
Goonan lives with his mother, where he runs the extremist Antifa propaganda site, True Leap Press.
… @UCBerkeley
for Palestine following an investigation involving the FBI and ATF.
The attacks were claimed on far-left blogs popular with Antifa. Casey Robert Goonan has been charged with possession of a destructive device, use of an explosive device, arson, arson on forest land and more. His bail is set at $1 million. "EVERY SINGLE BUILDING ON THE UC BERKELEY CAMPUS DESERVES TO BE INCINERATED," wrote one of the terrorist statements posted on a far-left blog.
Goonan has a Ph.D. in African Studies from
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[NewsFront] 21:35 Advance east of Nadia and south of Novoegorovka –map. 20:56 Gorlovka – Novgorodskoe.
Active military operationsin the Gorlovka area. Attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by a motorized rifle unit in Novgorodskoye in the direction of the Russian Armed Forces position on the northern bank of the Krivoy Torets River near the railway bridge. Russian Armed Forces servicemen are captured. The Russian Armed Forces control zone up to the Krivoy Torets River.
20:21 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces in Krasnogorovka and near Kleshcheyevka –map.
19:58 Tula paratroopers stormed another stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and captured three servicemen –video.
19:07 Around 18.20 Moscow time stopped another attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using aircraft-type UAVs against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region by air defense systems on duty.
18:44 Statements by representatives of the North, West, South, Center, East and Dnepr groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of August 1, 2024) –video.
18:15 Situation in the Toretsk direction :
– In New York, the Russian Armed Forces continue to advance deeper into the city, taking control of the Khlebozavod plant and the remains of the Petrovsky Machine-Building Plant.
– Meanwhile, Russian troops continue to advance towards Panteleimonovka, taking up new positions on the hills overlooking the town.
– In Druzhba, Russian troops took control of Dzerzhinsky Street, and in the village of Artemovo (Zheleznoye), an operation began to capture the Artem mine waste heap, with the Russian army advancing from two directions in order to outflank this height.
The situation in the Ocheretinsky direction:
– The Russian Armed Forces took control of most of the settlement of Timofeevka and began an offensive on Ivanovka from the south and east. In addition, Russian troops advanced south of Vesyoloye along the railway in the direction of Sergeyevka.
– In addition, Russian troops began to advance south along the western bank of the Volcha River, reaching the first system of Ukrainian fortifications.
Active military operations in the Artemovsk direction. Attack of the Russian Armed Forces by a motorized rifle unit on the Seversky Donetsk-Donbass canal in the area of the pipe bridge north of Chasovy Yar. Landing of troops, assault on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
17:21 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces in New York –map.
16:33 The Russian Aerospace Forces fired a Kh-35 missile at the position of the Ukrainian Air Defense Forces’ radio-technical company in the area of the settlement of Polyana (50 km northeast of the city of Nikolaev) –video.
The strike destroyed:
– ST-68 air defense radar;
– combat control cabin;
- diesel power station;
– up to 25 Ukrainian military personnel.
16:11 Around 15:00 Moscow time stopped another attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using aircraft-type UAVs against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region by air defense systems on duty.
15:41 Kharkov direction (Kupyansk area).
It is reported, that our barrel artillery has been actively working since early morning. In particular, our 152mm 2S5 self-propelled guns "MSTA-S" have worked on the enemy's fortified positions. An enemy howitzer 122mm D-30 has been destroyed.
15:23 Russian Armed Forces are advancing near Zhelannoye and have driven the enemy out of Timofeevka –map.
14:47 Advance of our troops northwest of Avdeevka on August 1 –map.
14:20 Snigirevka – Polyana.
Military operations in the depths of the Ukrainian Armed Forces defense. A missile strike using operational-tactical means against the position of the Ukrainian Armed Forces radar station. Successful destruction of the ST68U tracking and detection station. Distance from the deployment sites of the Russian Armed Forces is about 55 km.
13:59 Around 13:00 Moscow time stopped an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region by air defense systems on duty.
12:36 The crew of the Ka-52M helicopter successfully hit the Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the area of the special operation –video.
The crew of the Ka-52M of the Russian Aerospace Forces launched an attack with unguided air-to-air missiles on an enemy stronghold and manpower in the area of responsibility of the Vostok group of forces.
12:07 Ocheretino – Vesyoloye.
Positional military operations in the Krasnoarmeysk area. Forward positions of the Russian Armed Forces in the residential area of the village of Vesyoloye are under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The advance of assault units of the Russian Armed Forces in the western direction is more than 2.5 km.
11:44 Krivoy Rog.
A single powerful explosion thundered at a military industrial plant in the suburbs of Krivoy Rog. The strike was carried out by our Iskander OTRK missile.
11:03 Frontline summary as of the morning of 01.08.2024
- Zaporizhzhya Front. No significant changes in LBS. Positional battles continue in the Rabotino area and northwest of Verbovoye.
- Donetsk Front. Russian troops continue to clear the liberated territories of Krasnogorovka.
Heavy fighting is taking place in the area of Karlovka, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are putting up fierce resistance in this settlement.
In Novoselovka Pervaya, Russian troops managed to take control of the entire territory of the settlement. Also, the Russian Armed Forces continue to develop the offensive in New York.
- Chasovo Yarsk direction. Russian troops continue to improve their positions on the flanks. There are further advances from the north in the forest area. Also, there are reports of the Ukrainian Armed Forces retreating from Kleshcheyevka.
- Khar'kov Front. Fierce fighting continues in Volchansk. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to force the Volchya River in small groups. In the area of ??Deep, Russian troops have stopped another counterattack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The LBS remains unchanged.
10:54 Around 08.40 Moscow time stopped an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region by air defense systems on duty.
10:10 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Chronicle of the special military operation for July 31, 2024
– Russian troops carried out a massive drone attack on enemy targets in the Kyiv region; a new type of UAV was used for the strike, which allows for the launch of “bait targets” in large swarms.
– Ukrainian formations carried out a combined attack on targets in the Kursk region and its environs, and also fired several missiles from the ATACMS OTRK at Krasny Luch in the LPR.
- In the Kupyansko-Svatovsky direction, the configuration of the front in the Sergeyevka area to the south of Rodnikovoye has been clarified. As a result of the clashes, the Russian Armed Forces retreated up to two kilometers to the east.
– In the Artemovsk direction, Russian troops took full control of the Orlova tract and consolidated their position on the outskirts of the Oktyabrsky microdistrict.
– In the Aleksandro-Kalinovsky direction, Russian troops are expanding their zone of control in the Kirovo and Artemovo area, approaching the administrative borders of Dzerzhinsk.
09:47 Russian pilots using the Kh-35 missile destroyed Radar ST-68 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev region.
08:44 Russian military detected the approach of Ukrainian Armed Forces reinforcements to the stronghold anddestroyedhim with the enemy infantry.
08:40 Footage destruction of Ukrainian Armed Forces firing points by the crew of the 152mm 2S36 Giatsint-B gun in the Orekhov direction
Artillerymen of the Dnepr group of forces are gradually working on enemy positions to prevent attacks on civilians in the Zaporizhia region.
According to Russian servicemen, Ukrainian nationalists have gone into active defense and dug in. At the same time, the enemy continues to try to attack populated areas of Zaporizhia: it is hitting residential buildings with everything that can shoot – mobile mortars, rocket artillery, and Western-made howitzers.
Despite the distance of several dozen kilometers, Russian servicemen are striking directly at enemy positions and their artillery. Precise strikes are destroying fortified areas, military equipment and ammunition depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:20 The Russian army is advancing near Pokrovsk and has occupied Vesyoloye, which is east of Grodovka and west of the already occupied Progress, reports the Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState.
20:18 The General Staff announced that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have begun implementing the program of actions "Preserving the Lives of Servicemen". In particular, a working meeting was held today on problematic issues that need to be resolved to improve medical care for servicemen at all stages. The key issues discussed during the meeting were: improving the provision of medical care to the wounded directly on the battlefield, timely and maximally safe evacuation, in particular, using ground robotic platforms, providing units with specialized equipment for the safe evacuation of the wounded, and training combat medics.
19:40 On Friday, August 2, negotiations will begin with another European country regarding a security agreement, Zelensky said in an evening video address. "We are also preparing visits of leaders to Ukraine and, accordingly, the content of our negotiations and the long-term philosophy of our agreements," the president added.
Zelensky also said that "personnel decisions are being prepared at the government level, as well as additional decisions, so that this fall more Ukrainian children will be able to study in schools not online, but normally - so that there will be normal school life as much as is possible now, during the war."
19:17 The General Staff reported that it had worked out proposals for changes to the Procedure for the conscription of citizens for military service during mobilization, for a special period, which allow commanders of military units to conscript military personnel who have expressed a desire to serve in the military without the participation of territorial recruitment and social support centers in these events. According to the General Staff, the implementation of the relevant changes will allow:
simplify the mechanism for recruiting citizens for military service through mobilization;
commanders of military units to select and call up for military service personnel motivated to defend their homeland;
Persons liable for military service may choose vacant positions in military units, including those in related civilian specialties or skills;
to mitigate the risks for citizens of being called up through the TCC and SP to other military units (not by their own choice).
18:25 During the week of the state project I Want to Join My Own, one collaborator was exchanged for a Ukrainian, the GUR reported. Intelligence clarified that this happened during the exchange on July 17, when the project was still operating in test mode.
Also during this time, one collaborator stopped collaborating with the enemy thanks to the project, seven potential collaborators are being checked. Another seven Russians expressed a desire to leave for the Russian Federation. "If for one reason or another you are still collaborating with the enemy, you have a chance to stop this activity under certain conditions. To do this, you need to fill out a special form on the I Want to Join My Own website and strictly follow the instructions received," the GUR emphasized.
17:52 Peskov stated that "legal nuances regarding the legitimacy of the Ukrainian authorities" cannot be an obstacle to the start of serious negotiations. At the same time, he added that "no summit with Russia's participation is being prepared yet."
17:25 Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said the US is concerned about the progress of Russian troops in Ukraine. At the same time, he noted that he is "inspired" by Ukraine's ability to attract more people to replenish the troops.
16:46 America and its allies produce fewer weapons than Russia, China, Iran and North Korea combined, said Eric Eidelman, deputy chairman of the US National Defense Strategy Commission: "Our defense industrial base is in very bad shape. The European defense industrial base is in even worse shape. We need our industrial base, their base, and the industrial base of our allies in the Pacific region. Australia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan - they all need to step up their efforts. Because what Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are doing is beyond what we can do ourselves."
16:30 Hungarian Minister for European Affairs Janos Bocka sent a message to EU countries assuring that Orban has completed his "peacekeeping mission" on the Ukrainian issue, El País reports. However, according to the publication, some diplomats doubt the veracity of this statement and believe that the Hungarian Prime Minister may begin this "mission" again when it suits him.
16:27 Russian oppositionist Ilya Ponomarev claims that his house near Kiev was deliberately hit by a "shahed" on the night of August 1, and not by downed debris. According to him, the air defense did not even work on the drone, because the UAV was flying when there was no air raid alarm. And the day before, three more drones were shot down nearby, Ponomarev added.
16:24 Ukraine has appealed to UNESCO regarding the protection of Tauric Chersonesos in Crimea, the Ministry of Culture reported.
16:10 Russia attacked Ukraine with 426 Shahed drones in July. Over the same period, Ukraine retaliated with more than 520 drones, Forbes writes. The publication notes that Russia appears to be less effective in shooting down UAVs, as Ukrainian strikes cause significant economic damage to oil refineries and other targets.
15:59 Military radio technology specialist and technical blogger Sergei Beskrestnov (Flash) showed a photo of the wreckage of the new Russian Gerber drone, discovered after the attack on the night of July 31. "Plywood, foam, regular GPS, flight controller. Everything is as simple and cheap as possible. From components to assembly," he said. According to the expert, the drone does not have explosives, and some of them fell on their own after running out of fuel. The purpose of such a UAV is to deplete the resources of the Ukrainian air defense.
15:28 The European Union has rejected requests from Hungary and Slovakia for urgent consultations in connection with Ukraine's decision to ban the transit of oil from Russia's Lukoil, Bloomberg writes.
14:53 Syrsky reported that he had been working on the Eastern Front for three days, in the brigades that are holding the defense in the Kharkov and Toretsk directions. According to him, the enemy continues to concentrate its efforts in the Pokrovsk direction, trying to break through the Ukrainian defense in the direction of Zhelannoye, Novogrodovka, Pokrovsk. In the Toretsk direction, the forces of the National Police, the SBU and the Military Law Enforcement Service are conducting counter-sabotage operations, detecting and neutralizing enemy sabotage groups in urban areas.
In the Kupyansk direction, in the area of Peschanoye, Stelmakhovka, Makeyevka, there are fierce battles, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding their positions. The situation in the Seversky direction is difficult - the enemy is actively using artillery, conducting assaults, but is not successful. There are also fierce battles in the area of the canal on the approaches to Chasov Yar, without changing the positions of the parties. The Russian army continues to storm the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of New York, Pivdennoye, Zaliznoye.
In the Kharkov direction, in the area of Glubokoe, Volchansk, there are also battles, but the enemy is not successful, suffering significant losses. In general, in all directions of the enemy's offensive, there are military actions of varying intensity. In some places, at the cost of great losses, the enemy has minor success. Syrsky emphasized that during active military operations, the tactical positions of troops can change several times during the day, as of today, there have been no significant changes.
14:19 Zelensky said in an interview with French media that the Ukrainian military is tired and needs rotation - this is why the military leadership has been preparing 14 rotation brigades. But, according to the president, only three of these brigades have been equipped with weapons.
14:02 Russians have opened a railway station in Mariupol, which was completely destroyed at the beginning of the invasion. The launch of the railway will allow the occupiers to shorten the logistics route by almost 300 km, said the mayor's adviser Petro Andryushchenko. At the same time, a single diesel train with two carriages has been announced for civilians on the Mariupol-Volnovakha route, meaning that the railway will be used primarily for military purposes.
13:57 The state has announced a tender for the purchase of Ukrainian FPV drones through Prozorro for the first time, said the head of the Ministry of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov. He called on manufacturers to submit their drones for bidding and strengthen the Armed Forces of Ukraine with their developments. "Thanks to competition, the state will be able to buy them at the most favorable price, and for Ukrainian manufacturers this is an opportunity to increase their profits and scale up," the minister added.
13:30 Zelensky said that Russia will no longer be able to take Kharkov, and it has changed its target. According to him, Russian troops are concentrating on the Pokrovsk direction. "The entire East is difficult. The main goal today, after they failed to take Kharkov, and we understand that this will no longer be possible. The main goal has changed. Their main direction is not the East as a whole, although Slavyansk is no exception, but Pokrovsk, I would say, is a priority for them today," the president noted.
13:08 Forbes writes that the Ukrainian Armed Forces probably managed to shoot down a Russian helicopter in mid-air for the first time on July 31 using a drone. The publication notes that this was preceded by at least ten months of attempts. According to preliminary data, a one-kilogram drone hit a helicopter on the eastern outskirts of Donetsk, approximately 16 km from the front line.
To fly such a distance, an FPV drone may need the help of a second UAV following behind and transmitting a signal. "This is a complex operation that requires careful coordination. Considering how many FPV drones the Ukrainians launch every month, the threat to Russian helicopters could increase significantly," the publication writes.
12:16 Russians fired artillery at Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region - two people were killed, one was wounded, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
11:55 The SBU reported that it had detained a priest of the UOC MP who was preparing to strike at Ukrainian Armed Forces trains in the Kharkiv region. The rector of one of the Kharkiv churches was recruited before the full-scale invasion. He was supposed to collect information about the schedules and routes of Ukrainian Armed Forces trains. The priest was assisted by an acquaintance who worked at the local branch of Ukrzaliznytsia. Both have already been detained, they have been declared suspects and face up to 12 years in prison.
11:37 The Russians are rapidly building a base for the Black Sea Fleet in occupied Abkhazia, Bellingcat reports, citing satellite images from July 22. They show several new buildings, sites for new construction, and a new perimeter. The size of the base is likely to be larger than previously planned. To the east of the port, where the railway lines approach the military base, a large concrete foundation measuring approximately 100x40 meters has been under construction for several weeks.
11:25 Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak confirmed that Russia is using new drones to strike Ukraine. According to him, "homemade assembly indicates that production technologies are becoming cheaper in this war, but also that it is difficult for the Russian military-industrial complex to mass-produce other models due to sanctions and restrictions." In addition, Yermak emphasized that war technologies are constantly evolving, and "the democratic world has no right to lose the technological race to autocracies." According to the head of the OP, it is important to work not only through restrictions, but also by developing our own weapons.
11:03 In the Kiev region, during a night attack, a drone hit the house of Russian oppositionist Ilya Ponomarev. The politician wrote that today is his "second birthday." "The fifth attempt at an attack was the most unconventional and the most successful, which was difficult to defend against," Ponomarev noted. According to media reports, the politician and his wife were injured, and the drone exploded five meters from the front door of the house. The media also writes that the day before, on July 31, three drones had already flown into Ponomarev's property, but they were shot down by air defense and fell 50-100 meters from the house.
10:54 At night, Russians launched a missile attack on one of the railway stations in the Kharkiv region, a conductor was injured. Two locomotives, freight and passenger cars, tracks and power supply facilities were damaged, Ukrzaliznytsia reported.
10:41 More than 10 thousand civilians from Mariupol were arrested during the filtration and purges, said Mariupol mayoral adviser Petro Andryushchenko: "Where these people are, who these people are - there is no such data. For two years, together with the special services, with the partisans, we have been trying to get this information by any means possible - it is not there. The Russians guard this information like a nuclear button."
10:08 At night, Russians shelled the Kherson community with artillery, OVA reported. One person was injured in the Dniprovsky district of Kherson, another in the village of Sadovoe. In addition, a resident of Berislav, who was attacked by a Russian drone several days ago, went to the hospital. Also in the morning, Russian artillery hit Mylovoe in the Berislav district, one person was injured.
09:32 On the night of August 1, the Russians launched strikes with Iskander-M ballistic missiles and Shahed-type attack UAVs. All seven drones were shot down in the Kyiv, Poltava, Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk regions, the Air Force reported.
08:45 At night, Russians struck Izyum in Kharkiv Oblast with an Iskander-M ballistic missile, one person was injured, reported OVA chief Oleg Sinegubov. In addition, one person was killed as a result of shelling in Novoosinovo, Kupyansk district. Another person was injured the day before as a result of shelling by the KAB in Shevchenkovo, Kupyansk district.
08:39 In the Kiev region, as a result of falling UAV debris during a night attack, two people were injured, reported the head of the OVA Ruslan Kravchenko. There is information about damage to two private houses.
08:11 In Donetsk Oblast, on July 31, one person was killed as a result of Russian shelling - in Marinovka. Another ten people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
08:05 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and ten were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
07:59 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 1:
personnel - about 579,490 (+1,370) people,
tanks - 8399 (+9),
combat armored vehicles - 16,203 (+42),
artillery systems - 16,119 (+33),
MLRS - 1132 (+1),
air defense systems - 907 (+0),
aircraft - 363 (+0),
helicopters - 326 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 12,968 (+115),
cruise missiles - 2407 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 21,816 (+77),
special equipment - 2713 (+16).
07:08 In the Zaporizhia region, over the past day, one person was wounded as a result of Russian attacks on the Zaporizhia district, reported the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
01:13 Russian troops have occupied Timofeevka in Donetsk Oblast, the Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState reported. The distance from the village to Pokrovsk, a strategically important city for Ukraine, is about 31 km. The enemy has also advanced near Krasnogorovka, Panteleimonovka, Ivanovka, Zhelannoye, Vesyoleye and New York in Donetsk Oblast.
00:26 Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis confirmed that the first F-16 fighters have arrived in Ukraine: "F-16s in Ukraine. Another impossible thing turned out to be quite possible." The Times writes that Ukraine has received six F-16 fighters from the Netherlands. According to the newspaper's sources, several more aircraft from Denmark will soon arrive in Ukraine.
00:09 Drone debris has been found in Romania after Russia's strikes on Ukraine on the night of July 31, the country's Defense Ministry reported. New UAV fragments were found in the Chatalchioi area of Tulcea County, as well as near the settlements of Plaura and Periprava.
[USNInews] The current and future size and composition of the Navy, the annual rate of Navy ship procurement, the prospective affordability of the Navy’s shipbuilding plans, the capacity of the U.S. shipbuilding industry to execute the Navy’s shipbuilding plans, and Navy proposals for retiring existing ships have been oversight matters for the congressional defense committees for many years. Congressional focus on these matters has been heightened over the past decade by the increasing size and capabilities of China’s navy, and by the capacity of China’s shipbuilding industry compared with the capacity of the U.S. shipbuilding industry.
The Navy fell below 300 battle force ships (the types of ships that count toward the quoted size of the Navy) in August 2003 and has generally remained between 270 and 300 battle force ships since then. As of May 28, 2024, the Navy included 296 battle force ships.
In December 2016, the Navy released a force-structure goal that called for achieving and maintaining a fleet of 355 ships of certain types and numbers. The 355-ship goal was made U.S. policy by Section 1025 of the FY2018 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 2810/P.L. 115- 91 of December 12, 2017). The 355-ship goal predated the Trump and Biden Administrations’ national defense strategies and did not reflect the new, more distributed fleet architecture (i.e., new mix of ships) that the Navy wants to shift toward in coming years.
In June 2023, the Navy sent its preferred new force-level goal to the congressional defense committees. In March 2024, as part of its FY2025 30-year (FY2025-FY2054) shipbuilding plan, the Navy released the details of this new goal, which calls for achieving and maintaining a fleet of 381 manned ships of certain types and numbers, plus 134 large unmanned surface and underwater vehicles. The Biden Administration to date has not explicitly endorsed, as an Administration objective and funding priority, either.
[GEO.TV] Amid rising tensions in the Middle East, a nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier, Theodore Roosevelt, has arrived in the Persian Gulf.
According to US media reports, six US Navy vessels equipped with missiles were accompanied by the aircraft carrier. It is pertinent to mention here that five US Navy ships were already deployed in the Mediterranean Sea.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... Arab media reported that US spy planes flew over the coastlines of Syria, Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... and Israel for 4 hours and collected intelligence data.
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[GEO.TV] Israeli forces hit a school in Shejaia in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... City on Thursday, killing at least 10 people, Paleostinian civil emergency services said.
The Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... movement's Al Aqsa television said as many as 15 people were killed in the strike, which came as Israeli forces have continued battling Paleostinian fighters in various parts of the Gaza Strip.
The military said it had targeted fighters operating in a compound within the school that it said was used as a hideout for Hamas commanders and fighters.
"Prior to the strike, numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, surveillance, and additional intelligence," it said in a statement. Do you ever wonder why they never seem to hit anything but schools, hospitals, and nursing homes?
A group of Hamas operatives gathered at a school in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood were struck by a fighter jet a short while ago, the military says.
According to the IDF, Hamas was using the Dalal School as a hideout for operatives and commanders, and it had planned attacks against Israel from the site.
The IDF says it carried out “many steps” to mitigate harm to civilians, including using aerial surveillance and precision munitions.
Hamas authorities reported at least 12 dead in the attack
[FoxNews] In the biggest prisoner swap with Moscow since the Cold War, the Biden administration on Thursday secured the liberation of 16 American and German nationals held prisoner in Russia and Belarus in exchange for the release of eight Russians.
The top of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s list was hit man Vadim Krasikov, who used the cover name Vadim Sokolov and was convicted by a German court for the 2019 assassination of a former Chechen commander near Berlin’s parliamentary building.
"Krasikov is a high-ranking colonel in the elite Spetsnaz unit of the FSB," Rebekah Koffler, former DIA intelligence officer and author of "Putin’s Playbook," told Fox News Digital in reference to Russia’s intelligence agency the Federal Security Service (FSB).
"Krasikov is a very high-value asset who will be debriefed by the Russian security services on the operation, how he got apprehended, what he learned during the interrogations in Germany, and everything the Russians are interested in," she explained. "These debriefings will help the Russians to make improvements in their operational tradecraft for Russian intelligence."
Koffler also said it is likely the Putin operative will be used to train "would-be assassins for future operations, making them even more lethal and difficult to detect and apprehend. … Putin also wants to show to would-be recruits that he would personally get involved in getting his people out if they are caught. It’s a huge recruitment incentive."
Reuters reported that Krasikov, who was born in Kazakhstan in 1965 while it was still part of the Soviet Union, became a specialist assassin while working for the FSB, according to Bellingcat reporting.
Despite multiple witnesses to his assassination of the Chechen commander, which was carried out in daylight, Krasikov pleaded innocent and maintained he was a St. Petersburg construction engineer visiting Berlin as a tourist who went by the name Sokolov.
Though he was never directly confirmed as an agent by Moscow, Putin indirectly spoke of Krasikov in 2023 when he expressed a desire to secure the release of someone who "eliminated a bandit in one of the European capitals."
Ukraine's Security Service helped investigators identify the Russian FSB agent after obtaining footage of the man during his second wedding held in Kharkiv in 2010.
According to Reuters reporting, Krasikov never recognized the court during his trial and frequently refused to listen to the translation of the proceedings provided to him.
Reports have suggested the prisoner swap would not have taken place without the release of Krasikov, placing an enormous weight on the shoulders of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
"Our obligation to protect German nationals and our solidarity with the USA were important motivations," the German government said Thursday, according to a Reuters report.
President Biden also championed Germany’s efforts in the prisoner swap and said, "I particularly owe a great sense of gratitude to the chancellor."
[GEO.TV] Israeli forces have carried out a series of raids throughout the Hebron governorate in the occupied West Bank, taking nine people into custody, Al Jazeera reported citing the Wafa news agency.
The raids took place in Hebron city, the town of Beit Kahil and the town of Dura, according to Wafa.
These latest arrests follow reports of an earlier detention campaign in Nablus, where at least six people were apprehended by the Israeli military.
The IDF says troops detained 24 Palestinians affiliated with the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups in arrest raids across the West Bank overnight.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 4,400 wanted Palestinians in the West Bank, including more than 1,850 affiliated with Hamas, according to the IDF.
[GEO.TV] Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has condemned the government for failing to free the captives in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... while simultaneously dragging the country into an "endless" conflict, Al Jazeera reported.
"All the government offers us is more war, more war, and endless war, which will continue for years until we not only defeat them but also ourselves," wrote Lapid in a post on X.
It’s not like he has anything more important to do.
"It is our duty to remember that there is another way," he said. "It is possible to negotiate a captive exchange and bring them back home."
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese army on Thursday regained control of positions previously held by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the al-Muhandisin and al-Fatihab neighbourhoods in southern Omdurman.
This advance follows a February operation where army forces from the Wadi Sidna military base north of Omdurman broke through an RSF siege and linked up with the Corps of Engineers in the city centre. The RSF subsequently withdrew towards the neighbouring areas of al-Mansoura, al-Muraba’at, and al-Bustan.
The armed forces reported that special forces successfully executed an operation in the al-Muhandisin and al-Fatihab axis, Square 13, "killing dozens" and seizing weapons and ammunition from the RSF, which they labelled a "terrorist militia belonging to the Daglo family".
Military sources informed Sudan Tribune that the army also neutralized RSF pockets in the Hamad al-Nil area and near the al-Mansoura roundabout, situated on the border between Omdurman and Umbada localities.
Pro-army social media pages shared footage depicting the military seizing RSF sniper positions in western al-Muhandisin.
Over the past few months, the army has systematically retaken control of Omdurman’s historic districts from the RSF, including the headquarters of the state broadcaster.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Leader of the Revolution, Sayyid Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... extended condolences for the martyrdom of the Islamic Ummah’s martyr Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... and the Mujahid leader Fouad Shukr, promising Dire Revenge against the Israeli entity.
In a statement, Sayyid Abdul-Malik affirmed that, with Allah’s will and in cooperation with our brothers in the axis of jihad and resistance, they will spare no effort in avenging the martyr and all the deaders, as well as addressing the injustices faced by the Paleostinian people.
He emphasized that the criminal enemy’s involvement in targeting the martyr escalates the conflict to a broader and more significant level, with severe consequences for the enemy, Allah willing.
He confirmed that the crime of targeting the great Mujahid Ismail Haniyeh will serve as a greater incentive for resilience, steadfastness, devotion in the cause of Allah, and inflicting severe punishment on the criminal enemy.
The Leader explained that the Paleostinian people are being subjected to genocide perpetrated by the Israeli enemy with American involvement over the past ten months.
Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi emphasized that the Islamic movement has raised the banner of jihad and stood actively and steadfastly at the forefront of the oppressed Paleostinian people until it achieved significant accomplishments.
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[ARABNEWS] Hezbollah said it launched rockets at northern Israel Thursday "in response" to a deadly Israeli strike in south Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... — the group’s first attack after Israel killed a top commander earlier this week.
The Iran-backed group said in a statement that it "launched dozens of Katyusha rockets... in response to the Israeli enemy’s attack on... (the southern village of Shama) that killed a number of civilians."
The Israeli military said that shortly after the rocket fire, the air force "struck the Hezbollah launcher from which the projectiles were launched."
Earlier Thursday, the Lebanese health ministry said four Syrians were killed in an Israeli strike on the south, where Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged near-daily fire since 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 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... war began in October.
"The health ministry announces... four Syrian nationals were martyred" in an "Israeli strike" on the southern village of Shama, it said in a statement.
The ministry said the toll might rise once DNA tests had been carried out.
The strike also maimed five Lebanese nationals, it added.
Emergency services told AFP that the dead were farmer workers and part of the same family.
Plumes of smoke billowed from the site of the strike, which heavily damaged two nearby buildings and burnt a vehicle to a crisp, a photographer contributing to AFP reported.
The attack was Hezbollah’s first since an Israeli air strike killed its top commander Fuad Shukr on Tuesday evening, with leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> saying operations would resume on Friday morning.
Nasrallah warned his group was bound to respond to the killing of Shukr.
His death was followed hours later Wednesday, by the killing of Hezbollah ally Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... ’s chief Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... in a strike in Tehran, which 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... and Hamas have blamed on Israel. Israel has declined to comment on his killing.
In a statement, Hezbollah claims to have launched dozens of rockets at the northern border community of Metzuba in response to an Israeli strike in the Lebanese village of Chamaa earlier today.
There were no reports of injuries in the rocket barrage on the Western Galilee.
The strike in Chamaa reportedly killed four Syrians and wounded several Lebanese civilians.
[Bee] PARIS — Algerian boxer Imane Khelif made history this week by becoming the first-ever Olympian to win the gold medal in the new Freestyle Domestic Violence event.
"This is for all of us," an emotional Khelif said, raising his bloody fist triumphantly as the broken body of his small female opponent lay before him. "I'm proud that my superior man-shoulders and bone structure gave me the ability to beat up this small woman. This is what the sport of freestyle domestic violence is all about."
According to doctors, the genetically male Khelif has higher testosterone and XY chromosomes that make him a killing machine. He has dominated the amateur Domestic Violence circuit, but this is the first time a similar event has made its way to the Olympics.
"Today, I make history as the first professional woman beater to win a gold medal specifically for beating a woman!" a breathless Khelif said as he wiped blood off his gloves. "I'm a brave pioneer!"
"It's — it's my fault," his combatant said as she cried. "I fell down the stairs and into a doorknob really hard, that's all." The sportsmanship she exhibited earned her the silver medal.
At publishing time, Imane Khelif also brought home gold in Freestyle Mansplaining.
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International Olympic Committee Blasts "Aggression" Toward Fighters Who Failed IBA Gender Test, Defends Right to Compete
This is a gross distortion of the language of the type we hear so often from the progressive elites. They do this to make it sound like theirs is a noble and just cause. But calling it a "right to compete" ignores the reality of what happened. It was a man committing mayhem against a woman. But, hey, if you're gonna call it competition at least acknowledge that it's not fair by any stretch of the imagination. I always thought the Olympics were supposed to be fair. Silly me. I guess that's why I'm not watching it.
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It isn't about fair, now it is about equity.
Could very well title the opening ceremony theme as 'The Victory of Equity in Western Civilization.' That is debatable, as what they have done is not just show their ass, but create awakening moments, like this. I've gone with Sugar Ray Gendered, but One Punch Sham works.
[ARABNEWS] 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... and gangs backed by it are preparing coordinated action meant to deter Israel but avert all-out war, sources and analysts said, after the killings of top Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... and Hezbollah figures.
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… charged with two counts of sexual activity with a child
Naveed Anjum, 48, with one count of sexual activity with a child
Imran Hussain, 48,charged with attempted rape
Khalid Kamran, 33, charged with one count of rape
Mohammed Faheem Mahmood, 39, charged with one count of rape
Adal Manaf, 46, charged with one count of rape
The offences are alleged to of taken place between 2006 to 2009 against one female victim, who was aged between 12 & 15 at the time of the alleged offences.
One child, and it ended fifteen years ago… why arrest the grooming gang now?
The men will appear at Bradford Magistrates Court on 2 August 2024.
The image is of the accused in the Oxford gang rape trial.
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[Regnum] The number of dead Ukrainians whose bodies were removed from the Tisza River on the border with Romania and Hungary has increased to 37. This was reported by the press secretary of the Mukachevo border detachment, based in the Zakarpattia region of Ukraine, Lesya Fedorova.
She noted that at least 37 men have died in the Tisza since the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine. In reality, there may be more dead, since not all bodies are found in the river.
“The bodies of 17 of them were discovered only in 2024,” Fedorova clarified.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in July a barbed wire fence appeared on the Ukrainian bank of the border river Tisza. Men evading the mobilization announced in Ukraine regularly try to cross the river and leave the country. In particular, on July 6, border guards detained four evaders with gunfire who intended to swim across the Tisza on inflatable rings.
In April, the Ukrainian banks of the Tisza began to be mined, and in June, the first deaths of mine dodgers were reported. According to a source familiar with the situation, the Ukrainian authorities ordered that attempts to escape be stopped by any means necessary.
[TOWNHALL] In one of the least surprising developments of all time, this week’s White Dudes for Kamala Zoom call was a festival of estrogen where a bunch of weirdos, losers, mutations, sissies, whiners, dorks, geeks, and other key sub-sections of the Democrat Party gathered in the electronic ether to humiliate themselves at the feet of their mediocre candidate. That was no surprise. I didn’t check out enough of it to see if they started with a land acknowledgment or if they reassured some of the men participating that it was understood that some of them menstruate because every second I watched, I felt the testosterone draining from my body. Fortunately, being a conservative, I’ve got it to spare.
It was good for a laugh, at least for a moment. When you see a man debase himself so thoroughly, especially someone you despise, your first reaction is to point and laugh. But then, after you watch this grisly tableau for a while, your emotions morph into mortification. It’s painful to watch someone make himself look like such a complete zero. You want to cry out, “For the love of all that’s holy, have some self-respect. There’s a thing called dignity! Try it out!” But then again, if you purport to be a man and you support Kamala Harris, that’s what you are—a complete zero.
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When you see a man debase himself so thoroughly, ... you want to cry out, "For the love of all that’s holy, have some self-respect. There’s a thing called dignity! Try it out!"
Insufficient humility in those "dudes"?
HUMILITY
The moral virtue that keeps a person from reaching beyond himself. It is the virtue that restrains the unruly desire for personal greatness and leads people to an orderly love of themselves based on a true appreciation of their position with respect to God and their neighbors. Religious humility recognizes one's total dependence on God; moral humility recognizes one's creaturely equality with others. Yet humility is not only opposed to pride; it is also opposed to immoderate self-abjection, which would fail to recognize God's gifts and use them according to his will. (Etym. Latin humilitas, abasement, humility, from humus, ground.)
abjection
1: a low or downcast state; degradation;
2: the act of making abject; humbling, rejection;
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It's the conscience rejection of humility. It gives an exaggerated form of Dutch Courage. Don't underestimate it. It allows an asymmetric approach to an Overton Window move or worse, direct action like the Extinction Revolution storming Heathrow and spraying paint on the arrival departure boards or ruining classic art pieces.
And here's something more. Judge Merchan's daughter worked for and was indeed president of Authentic Campaigns, a political firm founded by Mike Nellis that raised money for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Adam Schiff, and Chuck Schumer. Loren Merchan fundraised on the trial her father was overseeing. The firm made multiple millions of dollars on the trial, according to the House Judiciary Committee. More on that in a minute.
Judge Merchan put a gag order on Donald Trump that prevented the former president from saying anything about his daughter and others involved in the trial. We can't have the Democrats' shenanigans getting into the open and ballyhooed by the guy with the biggest bullhorn in the business, now can we?
We now discover that Loren Merchan's partner at the political firm is the one who contrived the White Dudes for Harris knitting circle for beta males.
Julie Kelly reports that on the same day we found out about the astroturfed "white dudes" confab being overseen by Judge Merchan's daughter's business partner, the New York appeals court denied a Trump appeal to end the gag order and told the world about it. According to Judge Merchan's daughter's political business partner, they made $4 million on that Zoom call to help Trump's opponent.
The modified gag order will remain in effect until Trump is sentenced, which was supposed to be last month but was bumped to late September.
In the meantime, Jim Jordan's House Judiciary Committee has issued orders to Loren Merchan to preserve documents because, as one wag put it, there seems to be the stench of Fusion GPS on that outfit.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
The units of the Sever Group of Forces have engaged manpower and hardware of 42nd Mechanised, 92nd Assault brigades of the AFU, 112nd and 127th Territorial Defence brigades close to Porozok (Sumy region), Liptsy, Staritsa, and Volchansk (Kharkov region). Two counter-attacks by assault detachments of the AFU 57th Motorised Infantry Brigade and the 36th Naval Infantry Brigade have been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 280 Ukrainian troops, three motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
The units of the Zapad Group of Forces have improved the situation along the front line and defeated 14th, 63rd, 115th, 116th Mechanised, 3rd Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 107th Territorial Defence Brigade and servicemen of the 12th Azov Brigade near Kupyansk, Sinkovka (Kharkov region), Nadiya, Makeyevka (Lugansk People's Republic), Krasny Liman (Donetsk People's Republic), and Serebryansky forestry.
Two counterattacks by assault detachments of the 117th Territorial Defence Brigade have been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 535 Ukrainian troops, one tank, one U.S.-made HMMWV armoured fighting vehicle, and six motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare, one 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle, one U.S.-made 155mm M198 howitzer, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one UK-made 105mm L-119 gun have been eliminated.
In addition, Khortitsa-M and Bukovel-AD electronic warfare stations and two field ammunition depots have been destroyed.
The units of the Yug Group of Forces have taken more advantageous lines and positions, inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of 23rd, 24th, 28th, 33rd Mechanised, 144th Infantry, 79th Air Assault brigades of the AFU, and the 116th Territorial Defence Brigade near Novy, Chasov Yar, Annovka, Elizavetovka, Katerinovka, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic). One counter-attack launched the AFU 5th Assault Brigade has been repelled.
The enemy losses were up to 570 Ukrainian troops and two motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare, Russian troops have hit one U.S.-made M270 MLRS multiple-launcher, one U.S.-made 155mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system, two U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzers, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, three 152mm D-20 howitzers, three 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one 105mm U.S.-made L-119 howitzer.
Two Nota electronic warfare stations and five field ammunition depots have been destroyed
The units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have improved the tactical situation and defeated 31st, 32nd Mechanised, 1st Tank brigades of the AFU, 109th and 111st Territorial Defence brigades close to Toretsk, Novogorodskoye, Rozovka, Kalinovo, and Vozdvizhenka (Donetsk People's Republic). In addition, 10 counter-attacks by assault detachments of 47th, 53rd, 100th, 110th, 151st Mechanised, 68th Jaeger, 25th Air Assault brigades, the 95th Air Assault Brigade of the AFU and the Lut Assault Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine have been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 365 Ukrainian troops, two pickup trucks, and one 152mm Msta-B howitzer.
The units of the Vostok Group of Forces have improved the situation along the front line and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of AFU 72nd Mechanised, 58th Motorised Infantry brigades, 116th Territorial Defence and 21st National Guard brigades close to Vodyanoye, Zolotaya Niva, and Storozhevoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were up to 125 Ukrainian troops, seven motor vehicles, one 152mm D-20 gun, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, one UK-made 105mm L-119 gun, and one Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station.
The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have engaged formations of AFU 117th Mechanised, 128th Mountain Assault brigades, 121st and 124th Territorial Defence brigades near Orekhov, Pyatikhatki (Zaporozhye region), Oskorovka, Tokarevka, and Antonovka (Kherson region).
The AFU losses were up to 90 Ukrainian troops, five motor vehicles, one U.S.-made M777 howitzer, and one field ammunition depot.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged three U.S.-made Patriot SAM system launchers, one UAV command post, railroad echelons with manpower and ammunition as well as clusters of enemy manpower and military hardware in 147 areas.
Air defence facilities have shot down one U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missile, 14 U.S.-made HIMARS projectiles, and 61 U.S.-made HIMARS unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, 631 airplanes and 278 helicopters, 28,795 unmanned aerial vehicles, 559 air defence missile systems, 16,734 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,395 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 12,666 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 24,250 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Fox via Bongino] A whistleblower told Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley that Acting Secret Service Director 
[Bee] In a historic meeting today former Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton met with current presidential nominee Kamala Harris to work on improving Harris's black accent.
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[FoxNews] Over 20,000 migrants have already been approved for resettlement in the US
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...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
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[Regnum] Paris has been subjected to 68 cyberattacks since the start of the Olympic Games. This was stated by French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, Agence France-Presse reports.
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
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[Bee] PARIS — Algerian boxer Imane Khelif made history this week by becoming the first-ever Olympian to win the gold medal in the new Freestyle Domestic Violence event.
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[TOWNHALL] In one of the least surprising developments of all time, this week’s 
