[ToloNews] Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate, announced the arrests of perpetrators behind the recent attacks in Kabul and Bamyan.
Mujahid, in a statement, said that these attacks were carried out by individuals affiliated with the ISIS-Khorasan branch, and they had received training in Mastung, Balochistan.
The spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate said: "The special units and Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate have arrested important members of the insurgent group who had attacked the employees of the Directorate of Supervision and Prosecution of Decrees and Orders, and were also involved in several other attacks in Kabul and the attack on foreign tourists in Bamyan province."
On May 17th, an armed attack targeted civilians and foreign nationals in Bamyan, resulting in the death of six people, including three Spanish citizens and three civilians, and injuring seven others, including three locals and four foreign nationals.
Furthermore, on September 2nd, a suicide bomber attacked the employees of the Directorate of Supervision and Prosecution of Decrees and Orders, killing six people and injuring thirteen others.
Zabihullah Mujahid also added that from the hideout of the Kabul attack planner, including both light and heavy military equipment, a Tajikistani national was arrested, who intended to carry out a suicide attack.
Mujahid stressed that after conducting these operations, the leaders and remaining members of the ISIS-Khorasan branch, with the assistance of some intelligence agencies, have been transferred to Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
"It is evident that 95 percent of the attacks that take place in Afghanistan are planned in Pakistan, and those crimes are then carried out in Afghanistan," said Aziz Stanekzai, a military analyst.
"It is the responsibility of neighboring countries not to allow terrorist groups to destabilize both Afghanistan and other trans-regional countries. In this regard, there needs to be an international consensus, especially in the fight against terrorism," said Zalmai Afghan Yar, another military analyst.
The spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate further mentioned that ISIS, using new centers in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, conducts attacks in Afghanistan and other countries, targeting religious, political, and clerical figures.
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid stated in a press release that, during a series of operations in Kabul and Nangarhar, those responsible for attacks on Afghanistan judiciary employees and foreign tourists in Bamiyan were apprehended.
Mujahid further explained that investigations revealed that the attackers targeting employees of the “Prosecution and Monitoring of Orders” directorate had entered Afghanistan from a training camp of ISIS-Khorasan in Mastung, Balochistan.
He added that in separate operations in Kabul and Faryab, two ISIS members were killed, and several others were arrested.
[KhaamaPress] Authorities confirmed on Monday, September 30, that the Bibi Amina High School, located in Paranda, Bazarak, Panjshir province, was torched at around 9 p.m. the previous night.
Officials further stated that the fire department arrived promptly after the incident and extinguished the fire.
Police have arrested two individuals accused of setting fire to a girls’ school in Panjshir province. The suspects have confessed to the crime, and their case is now under legal review.
Their case will be processed through the legal system.
The motive behind the arson and the identities of those involved remain unclear.
A similar incident had occurred in Panjshir province previously, indicating a worrying trend.
Since 2021, girls in Afghanistan have been banned from attending school beyond the sixth grade, deepening the country’s educational and humanitarian crisis. The ban has left millions of girls without access to education, worsening poverty and hopelessness in the nation.
This policy has drawn widespread condemnation from the international community, with many calling it a violation of basic human rights. Amid dire poverty, the denial of education only exacerbates the country’s suffering, leaving a generation of girls without prospects for a better future.
[Rudaw] At least two civilians were killed and three injured on Monday in artillery strikes carried out by the Syrian army on the northwestern Idlib province, the last remaining rebel bastion in the area, a war monitor reported.
“Two civilians were killed and three others were injured as a result of artillery shelling by regime forces targeting homes in the city of Sarmin, east of Idlib city,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor.
Half of Idlib province, as well as parts of Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia provinces, are the last rebel-held bastions in the country after President Bashar al-Assad seized back swathes of territory over the course of the brutal Syrian civil war, which erupted in 2011.
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the former Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, is the prominent force among dozens of different rebel factions operating in the rebel-held northwest. It controls large swathes of Idlib and parts of Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia provinces.
It has been internationally recognized as a terrorist organization.
A ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey has been in place in northwest Syria since March 2020, but the area has witnessed a recent flare-up in violence.
Over 13 million Syrians have been displaced since the start of the civil war, more than six million of which are refugees who have fled the war-torn country, according to a report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
[IsraelTimes] At least 11 Palestinians were killed, including women and children, in an Israeli strike on a house in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip, Gaza medics tell Reuters after midnight on Tuesday. There is no immediate comment from the IDF, which says it takes steps to avoid casualties to civilians while Hamas embeds its fighters among them.
[IsraelTimes] An IDF soldier with the Yiftah Brigade’s 8108th Battalion was seriously wounded earlier today during fighting in the southern Gaza Strip, the military says. According to an initial IDF probe, the soldier was hit by anti-tank fire. He was taken to a hospital in Israel for treatment.
[IsraelTimes] The High Court of Justice unanimously rejects a petition demanding that the government release the body of Walid Daqqa, an Arab-Israeli citizen who died in April this year in prison after being convicted for his role in the abduction and murder of Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam in 1984.
The ruling, issued by justices Isaac Amit, Ofer Grosskopf and Gila Kanfi Steinitz, determines that the decision of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, approved by the security cabinet, to keep hold of Daqqa’s body did not exceed the boundaries of the principles of reasonableness or proportionality, and that there was therefore no cause for judicial intervention.
Owing to Daqqa’s importance to the Palestinian national movement, the security cabinet decided to keep hold of Daqqa’s body in order to use it as leverage in negotiations with Hamas for the return of the hostages abducted by the terror organization on October 7.
In its decision, the High Court rules that alongside the value of respecting the dead and the right of family members to bury their dead, the goal of freeing captives is a foundational principle of the country and is expressed in the controversial nation-state law, one of Israel’s quasi-constitutional Basic Laws.
The court acknowledges that the case of Daqqa was exceptional, in that although Israel has in the past held on to bodies of Palestinian terrorists, it has not done so for Israeli citizens. It says however that the military commander has the right to hold on to bodies including those of Israeli citizens.
It also says that Daqqa was “adopted” as a symbol by Hamas which itself hold on to the bodies of Israelis for use in negotiations to release its Palestinian prisoners.
The court says that since it is the opinion of professionals within the security establishment that holding on to Daqqa’s body “is likely to advance in an effective manner” negotiations for the return of the bodies of IDF soldiers and Israeli citizens, the decision is reasonable and proportionate.
“At the time of writing these lines, standing before my eyes are the hostages, the captives, and the missing, and the IDF soldiers, who have been in Gaza since October 7, and the families of those who have been there [Gaza] for many years — IDF soldiers Sgt. Hadar Goldin and Staff-Sgt Oron Shaul, and Israeli citizens Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed,” writes Amit.
“The voice of our brothers cries out from the tunnels in the Gaza Strip. May the prophecy of Jeremiah ‘and the children shall return to their borders’ be fulfilled for all of them speedily in our days.'”
The Adalah legal aid organization, which works to protect civil rights of Arab Israelis and Palestinians which petitioned the court to have Daqqa’s body released, condemns the decision, saying it was based on a “racist worldview.”
Said the organization, “Judge Yitzhak Amit justified the denial of the constitutional rights of the deceased and his family members to burial according to their faith by relying on the state’s duty to protect the members of the Jewish people in accordance with the provisions of the Basic Law: Nation-State.”
It adds that anyone who believed that the contentious nation-state law was only declarative “can now clearly conclude that the High Court has validated anchoring the status of Arab citizens as an enemy population that has no protection for their fundamental rights.”
[IsraelTimes] The United States will today announce nearly $336 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, according to a US Agency for International Development (USAID) statement seen by Reuters.
The funding will enable USAID’s partners to continue to provide humanitarian aid, including food assistance, healthcare, nutrition and other services, according to the statement.
The funding will also support emergency shelter assistance for displaced Gazans ahead of winter, the statement says.
“Over the last year, this conflict has cost the lives of innocent Palestinians and Israelis and has left Gaza and the West Bank in a state of humanitarian crisis and dire humanitarian need,” the statement says.
“The United States continues to call on all parties to agree to a ceasefire deal and an immediate release of hostages, and to allow for the immediate scale-up of humanitarian aid moving into and throughout Gaza.”
Very good. Almost an entire year after the kidnappings, but at least he said it. Has the Red Cross done so yet?
[IsraelTimes] UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemns Hamas for not allowing the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit the hostages in Gaza.
“I’d like to condemn the fact that the Red Cross is not even allowed to visit those hostages,” Guterres says, in a speech at an event raising awareness of hostage-taking worldwide. “This is something clear in international humanitarian law. Hostages… are entitled to receive Red Cross visits. I once again strongly plea for the ICRC to be allowed to visit these hostages.”
Guterres reiterates his call for the immediate release of the remaining 101 hostages being held in Gaza. He laments that efforts to broker a ceasefire have yet to bear fruit.
“I hope that the horrible events that we’re seeing will teach a lesson to the world for this [practice of hostage-taking] not to be possible anymore,” he adds.
The New York event is organized by Hostage Aid Worldwide, in partnership with the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights.
Probably the Kataib Hezbollah militia, working on Iran’s payroll and direction.
[IsraelTimes] Multiple Katyusha rockets were fired near Baghdad International Airport, two Iraqi military officials told Reuters early on Tuesday, but a US official disputes reports that its military forces were targeted in the incident.
“All military personnel are accounted for and military forces were not targeted as had been reported,” the US defense official tells Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Two Iraqi security sources say an initial investigation showed three rockets were fired, including one that landed near buildings used by Iraqi counter-terrorism forces, causing damages and fire to some vehicles but no casualties.
The sources had previously said at least two Katyusha rockets were also fired at a military base hosting US forces and that air defenses intercepted the rockets.
But the US official says Washington was aware of reports of an attack instead on the Baghdad Diplomatic Support Complex, which is a Department of State facility.
The US Department of State is assessing the damage caused by the attack, according to a spokesperson, who says there were no casualties.
Iraq, a rare regional partner of both the United States and Iran, hosts 2,500 US troops and also has Iran-backed armed factions linked to its security forces.
Iran-aligned armed groups in Iraq have repeatedly attacked US troops in the Middle East since the Gaza war began.
[IsraelTimes] Incursion aimed at removing terror group’s infrastructure along Blue Line; US official tells ToI: We understand desire for limited op, but are concerned about mission creep
The military launched limited raids into southern Lebanon late on Monday night against Hezbollah forces and infrastructure positioned along Israel’s northern border, hours after the security cabinet was said to have approved plans for the newest phase of the war against the Lebanese terror group, in a move that the US appeared to express its support for.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the IDF said that a “targeted and limited” incursion had begun several hours earlier, and was focused on Hezbollah targets and infrastructure in a number of Lebanese villages along the border that posed an immediate threat to Israeli towns on the other side of the Blue Line.
Ground troops operating inside southern Lebanon were being assisted by air and artillery forces, the military said, adding that the operation was based on plans drawn up by the IDF’s General Staff and Northern Command.
Confirmation that Israeli troops were operating on the Lebanese side of the border came several hours after various conflicting reports emerged on social media and in some Arabic media outlets as to whether some troops had already crossed the border. Lebanese troops had further added to speculation when they pulled back about five kilometers (three miles) from positions along the border late on Monday, apparently opting to stay on the sidelines, as it has historically done in major conflicts with Israel.
Ahead of the IDF’s announcement, an Israeli official told the Times of Israel that their US counterparts had been informed that the goal of the limited operation was to remove Hezbollah positions along Israel’s northern border, thus creating the conditions for a diplomatic agreement under which the terror group’s forces would be pushed back beyond the Litani River, in line with UN Security Council resolution.
In an apparent attempt to waylay US concerns about the incursion, two Israeli officials told the Axios news site that the operation would be limited in both time and scope and was not intended to occupy southern Lebanon. While the US had voiced concern earlier on Monday that even a limited incursion could spread further and turn into something else once it was already underway, the Biden administration appeared to express its support for the raids by way of a call between US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
“We agreed on the necessity of dismantling attack infrastructure along the border to ensure that Lebanese Hezbollah cannot conduct October 7-style attacks on Israel’s northern communities,” Austin said in the Pentagon’s readout of the call. During the call, the pair discussed Israel’s latest military operations, and Austin “made it clear that the United States supports Israel’s right to defend itself.”
While he seemed to voice support for the IDF operation, Austin nevertheless stressed that the incursion was not an end in of itself.
“I reaffirmed that a diplomatic resolution is required to ensure that civilians can return safely to their homes on both sides of the border,” he said in the readout.
The US defense official also “made clear that the United States is well-postured to defend US personnel, partners, and allies in the face of threats from Iran and Iran-backed terrorist organizations and determined to prevent any actor from exploiting tensions or expanding the conflict,” the readout continued. It added that Austin “reiterated the serious consequences for Iran in the event Iran chooses to launch a direct military attack against Israel.”
Echoing this line of thinking, another US official pointed to how Israel framed its 1982 invasion into Lebanon as a “limited” incursion, and how it had turned into an 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon.
The start of the IDF’s ground offensive came some two weeks into intensified fighting with Hezbollah, and after Operation Northern Arrows was launched earlier in September to meet the recently declared war goal of bringing residents of Israel’s north back to their homes following their evacuation last October under heavy rocket fire from the Lebanese terror group.
Earlier in September, thousands of Hezbollah’s communication devices exploded, reportedly taking some 1,500 fighters out of action, in an attack widely blamed on Israel.
Israel then engaged in days of targeted attacks, wiping out most of Hezbollah’s leadership in repeated strikes, culminating in the IDF killing longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday, when fighter jets dropped massive bunker-buster bombs on the group’s underground headquarters, located beneath residential buildings in a suburb of Beirut.
In its statement on Tuesday morning, the military stressed that it was “continuing to operate to achieve the goals of the war and is doing everything necessary to defend the citizens of Israel and return the citizens of northern Israel to their homes.”
Throughout the period of intensified fighting, the IDF had warned that it could conduct a limited ground offensive into Lebanon, leading the country’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati to make an apparent last-ditch effort on Monday to stave off the possibility by declaring that the Lebanese government was ready to fully implement a 2006 UN Security Council resolution that had aimed to end Hezbollah’s armed presence south of the Litani River. He did not, however, say that he had reached an agreement with Hezbollah on the matter, and it was not clear how he proposed to implement UN Resolution 1701 — which declares that Hezbollah is barred from maintaining a military presence south of the Litani — without use of force against the terror group that effectively controls southern Lebanon.
In the hours leading up to the limited raids, several European countries began pulling their diplomats and citizens out of Lebanon. Germany sent a military plane to evacuate diplomats’ relatives and others, while Bulgaria sent a government jet to get the first group of its citizens out.
The UK said that it had chartered a commercial flight for its nationals who wished to evacuate Lebanon, expected to depart from Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport on Wednesday, with further flights dependant on demand. Canada said that it had reserved 800 seats on commercial flights for citizens who wished to evacuate. About 45,000 Canadians are currently in Lebanon, and the next flight was scheduled to depart on Tuesday.
At the same time as the IDF announced it had begun operating inside Lebanon, Syrian state media reported that the country’s air defenses had intercepted “hostile targets” over the vicinity of Damascus, following an explosion that was heard in the capital. The state television channel later said that one of its anchors had been killed in what it said was three rounds of allegedly Israeli strikes in the area of the capital. Identifying the anchor as Sadaa Ahmad, the channel said he was “martyred in the Israeli aggression on the capital Damascus.” Citing a military source, the state media outlet said two others had also been killed, and nine people were wounded. There was no immediate comment from the IDF, which rarely comments on reports of airstrikes inside Syria.
Sirens warning of incoming Hezbollah rocket fire continued to blare periodically across northern Israel on Monday night and into the early hours of Tuesday, as did reports of Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon and in Beirut. Three rockets were launched from Lebanon toward the Israeli town of Shtula shortly before midnight, setting off sirens in the border community. The rockets all landed in open areas, and the attack was claimed by Hezbollah. Sirens were also triggered in the Upper Galilee town of Misgav Am and the surrounding area shortly after, although there were again no reports of damage or injuries. The IDF later said that ten rockets had been fired from Lebanon, some of which were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system while others had landed in open areas.
The Israeli Air Force, meanwhile, intercepted an unmanned aircraft over the Mediterranean Sea, dozens of kilometers west of Israel’s central coast.
Shortly before midnight, the IDF warned civilians to flee three sites in Beirut’s southern suburb, a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh, before it commenced strikes in the area, and Lebanese media outlets reported that large explosions could be heard across Beirut. Speaking to AFP on the condition of anonymity, a Lebanese security official said that Israel had conducted at least “six or seven strikes” in the southern Beirut suburbs. It was not immediately clear what the targets were, or what damage had been caused.
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In a more general update, the Lebanese health ministry said that over the past 24 hours, at least 95 people had been killed and 172 wounded in Israeli strikes on the country’s southern regions, the eastern Bekaa Valley and Beirut.
In southern Lebanon, Lebanese media and a Palestinian source said that Israel had launched a strike on a building in the Ain El-Hilweh Palestinian camp near Sidon. It marked the first strike on the overcrowded camp, the largest of Lebanon’s several Palestinian camps since cross-border hostilities broke out nearly a year ago. The strike had targeted Mounir Maqdah, commander of the Lebanese branch of the Palestinian Fatah movement’s military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, according to two Palestinian security officials. Maqdah’s fate was not immediately clear.
IDF says chief of Hezbollah’s medium-range rocket unit killed in Saturday strike
[IsraelTimes] The commander of Hezbollah’s medium-range rockets unit was killed in an airstrike on Saturday in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, the military announces. Eid Hassan Nashar was a “veteran commander” in Hezbollah and was a “central source of knowledge in the field of rockets,” the IDF says. He previously served as the head of the surface-to-surface missile unit, and the deputy of the Badr regional unit, according to the military.
Most of Hezbollah’s leadership, including the commander of its rocket and missile division, Ibrahim Qubaisi, have been killed by Israel in recent weeks. Other top commanders in the division have also been killed.
The IDF says it also struck caches of medium-range rockets, which can reach up to 200 kilometers, in recent airstrikes in Lebanon.
Hezbollah’s tunnel network is cumulatively several hundred kilometers long, Tal Beeri, an expert on underground warfare, told The Times of Israel in January.
Hezbollah has also tunneled directly into Israel, but those tactical tunnels were exposed and destroyed by the IDF in the January 2019 Operation Northern Shield, according to Beeri.
Israeli strike near Syria-Lebanon border injures seven pro-Iran militants: Monitor
[Rudaw] At least seven pro-Iran militants were injured in an Israeli strike in the countryside of Damascus, near the Syria-Lebanon border, a war monitor reported on Monday, amid soaring regional tensions against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war.
“Seven elements, most of them non-Syrians, were injured in an Israeli airstrike on a border crossing on the Syrian-Lebanese border in Rif Dimashq from the Syrian side,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor.
The strike targeted a border crossing that is experiencing heavy traffic, with tens of thousands of Lebanese citizens making their way to Syria to flee simmering tensions between Israel and Lebanon.
#1
Why Saudi Arabia remains quiet:
2016-09-28 VOx, Syria-Lebanon-Iran
"The head of Hezbollah has found someone he hates even more than Israelis. If there were any doubt as to just how toxic sectarian politics has become in the Middle East, the latest statement from the leader of the Iran-backed Lebanese Shia holy warrior group Hezbollah should clear things right up.
Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of a group that has been fighting Israel for decades, declared on Tuesday that "Wahhabism is more evil than Israel," Leb’s Al Akhbar newspaper reported.
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Diplomacy works when:
1) Both sides agree to the same thing.
2) Both sides KEEP the agreement.
When either of those fails, the "agreement" is just a bunch of words without meaning, and diplomacy itself is meaningless. When that happens, the only recourse is sufficient might for one side or the other to enforce the "agreement".
With Lebanon, what Israel should do is conquer southern Lebanon, open it ONLY to Christian Lebanese, kick the UN out of the way, and stomp Arab Lebanon every time they rise up to do any damage to either southern Lebanon or Israel. No member of the United Nations (which have only monetary interest in anything in the Middle East) should be allowed into Israel, Gaza, or Lebanon without being in risk of his/her life.
It won't bring peace, but it WILL cut down the number of murders.
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[IsraelTimes] Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed Monday that they shot down another American-made MQ-9 Reaper drone over the country, with videos purportedly showing a surface-to-air missile striking it. The US military did not immediately acknowledge losing any aircraft.
The Houthi-run broadcaster Al-Masirah claimed shooting down the MQ-9, hours after video footage circulated online showing the purported missile striking the aircraft over Yemen’s Saada province. A single image online also appeared to show wreckage of the drone, with pieces resembling that of an MQ-9.
The US military did not respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.
General Atomics Reapers, which cost around $30 million apiece, can fly at altitudes up to 50,000 feet (15,240 meters) and have an endurance of up to 24 hours before needing to land. The aircraft have been flown by both the US military and the CIA over Yemen for years.
Since Houthis seized the country’s north and its capital of Sanaa in 2014, the US military has seen Reapers shot down in Yemen in 2017, 2019, 2023, and 2024. The US military acknowledged the Houthis shot down two MQ-9s in September.
The Joint Maritime Information Center, overseen by the US Navy, acknowledged the last attack on a merchant ship by the Houthis came on September 2, but the rebels remain a threat.
“Despite a drop in attacks against merchant vessels over the last two weeks, the Houthis have shown ability and willingness to target US Navy assets and coalition partners,” the center said. The Houthis claimed an attack targeted American warships last week.
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Security Dude looks a bit nervous or concerned.
I can't help noticing that around the 0:10 mark, there is a chick in the background. By her outfit, she is part of the security detail, but she seems rather on the short side for that line of work.
Perhaps it was Take Your Daughter to Work Day.
"Iran’s attack is a severe and dangerous escalation. There will be consequences...We will respond wherever, whenever and however we choose, in accordance with the directive of the government of Israel."
Iranian report: 5 dead, 12 wounded IRGC forces from the Yanbarkaf unit in the explosion of a Segil missile before firing (therefore the launch) at Mallard.
Also: A Palestinian from Gaza living in Jericho was the only reported death in the IRGC attack.
The Islamic Regime only…
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Breaking: In an unusual video, Netanyahu prepares the people of Israel for challenging days ahead. Sources close to him point to the next major objective: Tehran’s nuclear facilities—Netanyahu’s lifelong mission. Prime Minister, we stand with you. Agree? Comment with the 🇮🇱 flag. pic.twitter.com/miYYnCRIbE
The article headline links to the Jerusalem Post’s Breaking News section. Here’s what they have up as of 4:30 p.m. ET:
Biden says consequences for Iran remain to be seen after Israel attack
By REUTERS 10/01/2024 11:16 PM
Israel 'proved its defense capabilites, we'll strike back' - IDF chief
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF 10/01/2024 10:38 PM
Wardens crack down on prisoners who expressed joy during Iran attack
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF 10/01/2024 10:31 PM
US calls on every nation to join it in condemning Iran's attack on Israe
By REUTERS 10/01/2024 10:24 PM
US Navy shoots down Iranian missiles, Jordan allows use of airspace
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF 10/01/2024 10:18 PM
IDF shoots at suspects moving toward forces in central Gaza
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF 10/01/2024 09:47 PM
Israel's FM reports incident in Sweden embassy, police probe
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF 10/01/2024 09:44 PM
Hamas praises Iranian missile strikes
By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF 10/01/2024 09:38 PM
Britain's Starmer speaks with Israeli PM, Jordan's king, Sky News report
By REUTERS 10/01/2024 09:10 PM
IDF closes military areas in Northern Israel
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF 10/01/2024 09:09 PM
Germany condemns Iranian missile attack on Israel, urges immediate halt
By REUTERS 10/01/2024 08:55 PM
Lebanon's airspace closed for two hours, transport minister says
By REUTERS 10/01/2024 08:52 PM
UN chief condemns broadening of Middle East conflict: 'This must stop'
By REUTERS 10/01/2024 08:43 PM
Israel's airspace has reopened
By MAARIV 10/01/2024 08:43 PM
Khamenei remains in secure location after missiles fired at Israel
By REUTERS 10/01/2024 08:38 PM
For reference, a bunch of Israeli news sites, plus the Daily Mail:
#8
Interesting timing. Right when Iran has visitors at Bandar Abbas.
BIG: India and Iran to conduct joint naval drills in the Persian Gulf; Indian Naval fleet docks at Bandar Abbas
The Indian Naval fleet comprising INS Tir (A86) and INS Shardul (L16), accompanied by ICG OPV, Veera arrived at the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas port on… pic.twitter.com/G0m8upDjWR
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I don't think Israel will use nukes, I do think they're going to make sure Iran is hurting for a long time after this.
And it would be hilarious if Iran's leader exploded on the toilet. That would be the perfect cap to the pager, walkie talkie explosions. Or rig his favorite goat to explode during 'fun' time.
#20
Bloody Hell! I take one little nap and the world explodes!
Thank you, Frank G, for being on top of this for us, and the rest of you bring us all the information as it happens. Rantburg is the most useful team project anywhere.
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#20 I believe those are DEFCON settings, advancing one level.
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Rex Mundi - The videos being posted of an Israeli base being creamed by Iranian missiles are BACKWARDS videos. Those are anti-missiles shot from the ground hitting the incoming Iranian missiles. Musk verified it with experts and AI. BACKWARDS VIDEO...
Ch 14 reported that the U.S. and Iran are negotiating the scope of the strike so that the U.S. will be able to compel Israel not to retaliate. Get it? The Biden-Harris administration is reportedly telling a U.S. enemy what level of assault against a U.S. ally is acceptable.
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Thanks 3dc - saw the comments. That's now the running line for videos showing cars lined up for gas in Tehran.
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Update on the Jaffa shooting from the Jerusalem Post: It was criminal, not jihadis, even though both gunmen are from Hebron — some hotshot criminal lives nearby, and there have been shootings there almost every day.. Both gunmen were shot dead by a combination of the city security patrol and armed citizens, which I find pretty impressive. Seven dead plus the two miscreants, and lots of wounded.
Security forces initially believed the incident was criminal because there has been a criminal shooting in the area nearly every day recently due to a well-known criminal living nearby, according to Maariv
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Thank you, Grom — that’s exactly it.. For some reason the Jerusalem Post crashes frequently for me, making it difficult to pull together a proper post before it’s all erased and I have to start over. They actual write better articles than the Times of Israel, but I’m not clever enough to either fix or work around the problem.
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Note" The last time the US went to DEFCON 2 according to unclassified reporting was the Cuban Missile Crisis.
WIKI Cite:"
Readiness condition Exercise term Description Readiness
DEFCON 1 COCKED PISTOL Nuclear war is imminent or has already begun-Maximum readiness. Immediate response.
DEFCON 2 FAST PACE Next step to nuclear war-Armed forces ready to deploy and engage in less than six hours
DEFCON 3 ROUND HOUSE Increase in force readiness above that required for normal readiness Air Force ready to mobilize in 15 minutes
DEFCON 4 DOUBLE TAKE Increased intelligence watch and strengthened security measures Above normal readiness
DEFCON 5 FADE OUT Lowest state of readiness Normal readiness "
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In reference to certain upstream posts...
People, when you are making your tinfoil hat, put the shiny side out. I cannot stress this enough. Shiny Side Out. Otherwise, you are just concentrating the rays.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — From Maine to Texas, dockworkers at 36 ports across the eastern United States are on strike for the first time in decades, a work stoppage that could snarl supply chains and cause shortages and higher prices if it stretches on for more than a few weeks.
Workers began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and the ports’ use of automation, though some progress was reported in negotiations over a new contract. The existing contract between the ports and about 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association expired at midnight.
The strike comes just weeks before a tight presidential election and could become a factor in the race if shortages begin to affect many voters.
In early picketing, workers outside the Port of Philadelphia walked in a circle and chanted, "No work without a fair contract." The union, which is striking for the first time since 1977, posted message boards on the side of a truck reading: "Automation Hurts Families: ILA Stands For Job Protection."
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They will get no sympathy from me. Kamala will do nothing because she doesn't understand how this makes her and Biden look. The first recorded use of machineguns in the US was on striking workers (Who back then had some valid gripes). These clown deserve flamethrower time. The company should tell them "Every day you are on strike, we'll cut your pay 10%"
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Had a neighbor who trucked goods into the NY harbor area. He said they had two lines for unloading-loading. The "standard" load-unload line. The "premium" load-unload line. Access to the 'premium' line was simple. Simply hand your premium payment to the I.L.A. thug who walked the truck line and you were good-to-go for the premium line.
Everyone in the "standard" line simply sat there and continued to wait.
Although there hasn't been a strike since 1977 the ILA has initiated several work slowdowns.
Also, the average wage for an ILA member is about $40/hr. Non wage benefits, e.g., paid vacation time, health benefits, are difficult to estimate but most analysts think it is equivalent to about $25/hr.
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"Supply Chain is a fevered Ultra-MAGA construct made up to score political points."
Speaking of Diddycrats getting excited about spankings tonight....where's Bootygig?
[WFB] Think CBS Moderators will ask him about this in the debate? Me neither
Walz’s claims in 2014 congressional hearing are a tall tale, video and local news reports show
At a 2014 congressional hearing held to mark the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Tim Walz, then a congressman representing Minnesota’s first district, recalled being in Hong Kong when the Chinese Communist Party crushed the student protests that had roiled the country since mid-April of 1989. The unforgettable crackdown came on June 4 of that year.
"I was just going to teach high school in Foshan in Guangdong, and was in Hong Kong in May of ’89," he said. "And as the events were unfolding, several of us went in. And I still remember the train station in Hong Kong." He went on: "There was a large number of, especially European, I think, very angry that we would still go after what had happened, but it was my belief at that time that the diplomacy was going to happen on many levels."
That anecdote has since been repeated, without scrutiny, by the New York Times, CBS News, and National Public Radio, among others. In reality, local news reports show that Walz was at home in Nebraska in May and June of 1989, as protests convulsed China and the government’s response turned the world’s attention to its gross human rights violations. He wouldn’t depart for China until August.
Contemporaneous news reports show Walz touring a National Guard storeroom in Alliance, Nebraska, in May 1989. They indicate that Walz did not leave the United States until August of that year, at least two months after the student protests ended with the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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There is a jerk like Tim in most small town bars.at least we can see that his wife is not Morgan Fairchild.
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Tim Walz's fabrications about his military rank, endorsement by the C O Commerce, his role in the Funding our Future fraud, location during Tiananmen, etc. should all have been public knowledge long ago.
It is because the leftist Star Tribune dominates Minn/St Paul and Mn/StP dominates the State that Walz has mostly escaped scrutiny until now.
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[Bee] U.S. — A source close to the Harris campaign reveals Tim Walz is "very excited" for this week's Vice Presidential Debate after learning he might get spanked by JD Vance.
"I was nervous at first because Vance seems to know what he's talking about," Kamala Harris' running mate said, "but I didn't realize it was that kind of a debate."
"I can barely contain my excitement!"
Walz, a known tampon aficionado, claims to be "an actual heterosexual married to a woman," dispelling rumors that he is a gay man. However, his newfound eagerness for a spanking by Vance appears to contradict previous statements that he "loves the womens."
"I'm not a gay," Walz said on the campaign trail. "Why do people keep asking me that?"
News of Walz's excitement has reportedly reached JD Vance, who sources claim is now no longer looking forward to the debate.
At publishing time, Tim Walz asked his wife not to come to the debate. "We're just doing guy stuff, you wouldn't be interested," he said.
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Bitar is the highest-ranking official at the White Houseresponsible for coordinating the U.S. government's intelligence and defense policy.
In his youth, Bitar was a radical Palestinian supporter, an Anti-Israel activist, and a Board Member of the radical activist group Students for Justice in Palestine in its early days.
According to Rep. Mike Lawler, who has deep concerns about Bitar’s position, Bitar was also an intern for UNRWA.
Lawler also claims that Bitar has shown "a clear bias against and disregard for Israel."
Evidence has shown UNRWA is intertwined with Hamas, which is a U.S. designated terrorist organization.
SJP is the subject of multiple investigations and lawsuits for alleged ties to Hamas.
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For over 100 years, the U.S. government ’tolerated’ freedom of speech because they virtually controlled the information that Americans received.
Whether it be from the government-controlled schools, or from watching one of the handful of ’licensed’ TV stations, all Americans consumed the same pre-packaged "narratives."
There was no threat to the government from Americans speaking freely, as long as the "narratives" were controlled.
But that monopoly has been shattered with the Internet.
We all choose our sources of information, who to follow and who to block, or just ignore.
While lies will always exist (both in and out of government) the American people actually have fighting chance to hear the truth!
It's now possible to hear/see/read the truth, and it can come from anywhere in the world, at any time.
Under these new circumstances, the government is finding freedom of speech intolerable, because their control over information is gone.
[The Blaze] One state in the Democratic 'blue wall' could cost the Democrats the election.
A video obtained of a Michigan Democrat during a donor call undermined the media narrative that Democratic candidate Kamala Harris was safely ahead in the battleground state.
Harris is only about 1.4% ahead of former President Donald Trump in the RealClearPolitics average of polls for Michigan, and some polls included she is winning by as much as as 5%.
"I'm not feeling my best right now about where we are on Kamala Harris in a place like Michigan," said Slotkin in the video obtained by Axios.
"We have her underwater in our polling," Slotkin added.
However, according to Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat who is running for an open U.S. Senate seat, the Harris-Walz ticket is losing in their internal polling. She was speaking with Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey on a leaked video from a virtual fundraiser.
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I get Slotkin mixed up with the stooge in Virginia. Congress is like a Roach Motel for spooks and neer do wells.
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You have polls for the rubes and you have your own internal polls. If the polls for the rubes told the truth then nobody would want to risk their money on campaign contributions.
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I am a reflexive reader.
I hear the silent words.
Everytime I see this I hear:
"We have her underwear in Poland".
[The Blaze] After the weaponization of Biden’s DOJ — where peaceful pro-life activists and attendees of January 6 were jailed — it should come as no surprise that Democrats want to crack down harder on American citizens.
Recent comments made by Virgin Islands delegate Stacey Plaskett on the weaponization of the federal government couldn’t have made that more obvious.
"It’s necessary for the public and the media to try and provide cover for the eradication of the Department of Justice and the FBI," Plaskett said, claiming without these agencies there would be no checks "against white nationalism, great replacement theorists, Christian nationalists, white fragility, fascists, and the twice-impeached convicted felon former President, and would-be dictator, Donald Trump."
FBI whistleblower, Steve Friend, believes Plaskett reflects "entirely what they’re all interested in."
[Red State] Fateh Sherif was, supposedly, an educator — the principal of Deir Yassin Secondary School. He was also an employee of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA.) Sherif also moonlighted as a Hamas leader, responsible for coordinating Hamas actions with Hezbollah, including recruiting and logistics operations.
Now he's been shuffled off the mortal coil by the Israeli Air Force after an air strike eliminated him, and the UNRWA is finally admitting he was one of theirs.
A U.N. aid group confirmed Hamas’ leader in Lebanon, who was recently killed by Israeli strikes, was their employee.
Fateh Sherif was killed Monday in an airstrike on the al-Bass refugee camp in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, along with his wife and children.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) noted that Sherif had been on suspension with the organization since March but had not been fired.
"Fateh Al Sharif was an UNRWA employee who was put on administrative leave without pay in March and was undergoing an investigation following allegations that UNRWA received about his political activities," an UNRWA spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
At the time, his suspension sparked widespread protests and strikes by teachers in Lebanon.
What a fine example he set for little Lebanese schoolkids! It's important to note that Sherif had been living this not-so-subtle double life for some time now, and the UNRWA seemed to notice only after they came under scrutiny for some of their members providing support for, if not actually taking part in the Oct 7th attacks on Israel — and for stealing and reselling humanitarian aid meant for non-Hamas Gazans.
[The Federalist] Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron ordered in February former President Donald Trump to pay an approximate $450 million penalty in a civil fraud case in which there were no victims. Now, a New York appellate court is raising questions regarding the "troubling" penalty and Attorney General Letitia James’ justification for bringing the case in the first place.
James accused Trump of inflating his personal wealth to get better loan terms. Trump, for example, valued his Mar-a-Lago estate at between $427 million and $612 million, Forbes reported. Engoron, however, cited a one-off local Palm Beach County appraiser who valued the property as low as $18 million. Some experts have reportedly valued the sprawling property in the hundreds of millions.
As my colleague Mark Hemingway explained earlier this year, "Trump took out loans over several years, as real estate moguls are wont to do. For him to get approved for those loans, the banks did their own due diligence about Trump’s finances and ability to pay back the loans and decided to give them to him. Trump paid back the loans, and everyone made money."
Enogoron ultimately ordered Trump to pay $354 million plus an additional $100 million in interest. Trump posted a $175 million bond in April and appealed the ruling.
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It is clear to many DC kiss up underlings, DC Cartel days are limited.
I recently downloaded the 922 page Project 2025 Pdf from the Project2025.org site, and started skim reading certain parts and topics. I can see just from the skim reads why the LSD fear it.
Note: There are bogus versions floating around be sure to verify your Dload as real.
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The thing with narcissists is, when someone else suffers a subsequent loss, they feel it takes away from their own time in the spotlight.
See: Joe Biden on Beau Biden.
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[MLB] CINCINNATI – A gritty baseball great who compiled a nearly unrivaled list of achievements, only to tarnish his own legacy with sins against the game that drew a nearly unrivaled list of detractors, Pete Rose died on Monday at the age of 83.
Rose passed with the distinction of being both Major League Baseball's all-time hits leader and on its permanently ineligible list for betting on Cincinnati Reds games.
"Major League Baseball extends its deepest condolences to Pete Rose's family, his friends across the game, and the fans of his hometown of Cincinnati, Philadelphia and beyond who admired his greatness, grit and determination on the field of play. May he rest in peace," MLB said in a statement. Read the rest at the link
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Saw Pete aka "Charlie Hustle" many times at the old Crosley Field and Riverfront Stadium. Back when the Big Red Machine was the best team in baseball.
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He was the hero to a lot of boys playing Sandlot or Little League in SW Ohio in the 60's.
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Pete didn't hit much in the 1976 World Series with the Yankees (he was World Series MVP the year before against Boston), but you should go find some youtube vids of what he did to the Yankees leadoff hitter Mickey Rivers. Every time Rivers came to the plate Pete was positioned literally 10 feet in front of the dirt cut-out and *then* would start his momentum forward as the pitcher released the ball. He basically dared Rivers to hit line drives at him while simultaneously announcing "There will be NO bunt hits this series." It was Rose being Rose--the ultimate competitor.
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Musk's people got in. Trump and Graham's people got in. Biden and Harris...AWOL, WTF?
Looks to me like Biden and Harris would be down there serving up 'hot-A's' in a mess line. Perhaps they've written off NC and Ga, and now have other plans.
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And the demoncrat propaganda machine will cover up that Trump and Musk are helping and Groping Hairplugs and Cameltoe are just raising money off it.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP) mourned three of its leaders who were killed in an Israeli bombing of a residential apartment in the Cola area of central Beirut early on Monday.
In a statement, the group identified the deaders as Mohammed Abdel Aal (Abu Ghazi), member of the Political Bureau of the Front, and Head of the Military Security Department, Emad Odeh (Abu Ziyad), member of the Military Department of the Front, as well as its military leader in 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 Abdel Rahman Abdel Aal.
''As the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine bids farewell to its heroic martyr leaders, it pledges to them and to all the deaders of our people and our nation that it will continue the path of struggle and resistance until the occupation is swept away, no matter how long it takes and regardless of the sacrifices, '' the statement read
Lebanese media sources reported that Israeli drones attacked an inhabited residential apartment in the Cola area of central Beirut.
According to the military and Shin Bet, Nidal Abd al-Aal was involved in planning and advancing terror attacks in the West Bank.
The IDF and Shin Bet say al-Aal was behind a bombing attack on a bus in the settlement of Beitar Illit in March 2023, as well as a shooting attack in Huwara in the same month, the latter of which wounded two soldiers.
Alongside him, Imad Odeh, a PFLP military commander, and another operative, Abdelrahman Abd al-Aal, were killed in the strike.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 20:25 The G7 foreign ministers issued a joint statement reaffirming that they will never recognize Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territory. "This war of aggression can end now if Russia immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraws its troops from all of Ukraine to its internationally recognized borders, renounces its claims to the annexation of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions, as well as the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, and respects the sovereign rights of Ukraine as an independent state," the statement said.
20:04 The next meeting in the Rammstein format in Germany will be "special", Zelensky said in an evening video address. Earlier it was reported that the meeting will take place on October 12 at the level of heads of state and will be chaired by Biden. "From our side, our partners receive all the details, all the arguments on how to ensure results in the coming months both at the front and in diplomatic work. The power of arms and the power of diplomacy always work effectively only together, and this is how we expect, this is how we must implement the victory plan. We also expect specific things from our partners," the Ukrainian president emphasized.
He also announced the preparation of another security agreement, this time on the 27th. In addition, Zelensky said that today he held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters, where they discussed the staffing of brigades, the purchase and supply of weapons and equipment for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Another meeting was with Commander-in-Chief Syrsky and Chief of the General Staff Bargilevich, who reported on each of the front-line areas. "A very difficult situation. The most important thing is to put pressure on Russia by all means, all instruments, in order to achieve our goal as soon as possible - a real and fair peace for Ukraine," the head of state noted.
18:08 Russians struck a team of power engineers in the Dnipropetrovsk region, hitting a service vehicle, DTEK reported. The repair team, which was working near the front line, managed to take cover and was not injured. The drone hit the service vehicle and completely destroyed it.
16:43 September was the first month since the start of the war during which Russia attacked Ukraine with Shahed drones daily, writes ArmyInform. According to Air Force statistics, in September the enemy launched a total of 1,339 Shahed attack UAVs at Ukraine, of which 1,107 were shot down, and some were suppressed by electronic warfare. On average, the Russians launched 44 Shaheds daily, and the largest number of attack drones was launched on September 14 - 72.
16:07 Stoltenberg said that NATO has not recorded any changes in Russia's nuclear doctrine "that would require any changes on the part of the Alliance."
15:34 The Ministry of Justice assured that Ukrainians who were forcibly given Russian passports in the occupied territories will not be held accountable. "Article 40 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, in the presence of evidence of the use of psychological coercion, provides them with full legal protection in court," the department said.
15:18 In the Donetsk region, near Chasovy Yar, another Russian "war correspondent" was wounded, Izvestia newspaper employee Denis Kulaga, Russian media write. He was riding an ATV when an FPV drone flew into him. Kulaga received shrapnel wounds to both legs, burns and fractures of his lower limbs, but his life, as stated, is not in danger.
13:59 Putin signed a decree on the autumn draft: from October to the end of December, 133 thousand people are planned to be called up. The General Staff of the Russian Federation emphasized that conscripts "will not be involved in the implementation of tasks within the framework of the SVO in new regions."
12:45 Peskov called for "not excessive appeals" to changes in the Russian nuclear doctrine in the context of the war in Ukraine, which "continues on its own course." At the same time, he added that the decision to adjust the nuclear doctrine "is important, all changes will be formalized accordingly."
12:36 In the morning, Russians struck Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region with an FPV drone, one person was killed, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
11:48 For Ukrainians who are in the temporarily occupied territories, a service called Ty v Ukrainі has been created. The service includes a free VPN and a special browser for residents of the temporarily occupied territories. Thanks to it, Ukrainians will be able to stay in touch with Ukraine, even if the occupiers block Ukrainian sites or introduce their local Internet. Registration on the website tyvukraini.com.
11:27 The European Union will introduce a new sanctions regime against Russia, RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak reported: "EU ambassadors will agree on a new thematic sanctions regime on Wednesday, targeting Russia's hybrid threats. It will be formalized next week. There are no names yet, but they will be added in the future." The journalist added that the EU initially wanted to introduce a general sanctions regime, but eventually agreed that it would focus on Russian threats.
11:04 In Sumy Oblast, nine people were wounded as a result of Russian shelling over the past day, the National Police reported. The enemy carried out 280 strikes on 50 settlements.
10:56 Russians have been attacking the Kherson region since the morning: three people were injured in Velyka Oleksandrivka, two more in Kherson, OVA reported. In addition, three residents of the region who were injured yesterday due to Russian UAV strikes sought hospital treatment: in Berislav, Belozerka and the Belozerskaya community.
10:13 In the Kiev region, debris from downed "shaheeds" fell in six districts: grassy areas caught fire, a private house caught fire, and a cemetery was damaged. No one was hurt, OVA reported.
09:28 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and 12 were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
09:17 In Donetsk Oblast, two people were killed as a result of Russian shelling on September 29 - in Lisovka and the village of Shevchenko. Three more people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
09:10 In the Kharkiv region, over the past day, four people were injured as a result of Russian shelling - two in the village of Boguslavka in the Izyum district and two in the village of Odnorobovka in the Bogodukhovsky district, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
09:04 The victory plan will be presented to the public for review, but some of its points are secret, said the head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak: "Everything that becomes public is heard not only in our country, but also by the enemy. And therefore, of course, some details of this plan are closed."
08:46 Air defense destroyed 67 of 73 Shahed-type attack UAVs at night, the Air Force reported. One drone flew in the direction of Belarus, three more were lost in the northern regions of Ukraine. One UAV remains in Ukrainian airspace, combat work is underway.
In addition, at night Russia attacked with one Kh-59/69 guided air missile (it was also shot down), as well as one Iskander-M ballistic missile and one Kh-31P anti-radar missile. Air defense forces operated in the Kyiv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Zhitomir, Poltava, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk and Nikolaev regions.
08:14 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 30:
personnel - about 653,060 (+1250) people,
tanks - 8874 (+5),
combat armored vehicles - 17,503 (+27),
artillery systems - 18,822 (+27),
MLRS - 1204 (+0),
air defense systems - 963 (+1),
aircraft - 369 (+0),
helicopters - 328 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 16,224 (+38),
cruise missiles - 2610 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 25,548 (+53),
special equipment - 3313 (+16).
07:35 In the Bashtansky district of the Nikolaev region, as a result of a night Russian attack, a fire broke out at a critical infrastructure facility; information about the victims is being clarified, reported the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
Original text in English, and behind a paywall, but posted in its entirety at Boris Rozhin's Live Journal account.
[ColonelCassad] Since the assassination of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq on President Donald Trump’s orders in 2020, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has emerged as the de facto leader of the “axis of resistance.” As a result, he has become a top target for both the United States and Israel, especially since Hezbollah announced its support for a second front in the war on Gaza.
In response, Israel has been constantly updating its list of high-value targets, employing the latest technologies of fifth- and sixth-generation brilliant warfare to locate and eliminate resistance leaders, whether in their homes or meeting places.
Not to mention on the road between home and meeting places. An awful lot of Hezbollah bad guys have died on the road to Jerusalem, as they like to say, while going somewhere.
The assassination of Hezbollah’s leadership, most notably Sayyed Nasrallah, whom Israel claimed to have killed in a large-scale strike, fits into Israel’s broader strategy to neutralize what it perceives as one of its most serious threats. These efforts are not new, but have been going on since 2006, when an unprepared Israel faced a less powerful Hezbollah. Today, the Israeli military is far better equipped, both technologically and strategically, to engage Hezbollah in a full-scale conflict. An important component of this preparation has been the accumulation and analysis of vast quantities of intelligence collected over the past 18 years. Israel’s intelligence capabilities have evolved significantly, using a combination of human intelligence (HUMINT), signals intelligence (SIGINT), geospatial intelligence (GEOINT), and advanced cyberwarfare to identify Hezbollah’s vulnerabilities. The Israeli intelligence community, led by agencies such as the Mossad and Aman (the military intelligence directorate), operates a sophisticated network of informants, technical surveillance, and advanced data analysis systems that are used to make military decisions in real time.
INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITIES:
1. Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) and Predictive Analytics:
Israel uses GEOINT to locate underground bunkers, missile silos, and hidden facilities, which is essential for identifying Hezbollah command centers, weapons depots, and safe houses. High-resolution satellite imagery, often augmented with artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, allows Israel to locate fortifications, track personnel movements, and identify new construction projects. Predictive analytics uses massive amounts of data, including Hezbollah’s past behavior patterns, to anticipate future enemy movements. AI-driven systems analyze historical data, intercept communications activity, and use spatial intelligence collected by satellites deployed by Israel and its key ally, the United States. This allows the Israeli military to plan strikes in advance based on where they predict high-value targets will appear.
2. Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Communications Interception:
SIGINT is a critical element of Israel’s intelligence-gathering success and involves the interception and analysis of communications. This mission is carried out by Israel’s Unit 8200, one of the most advanced signals intelligence units in the world. ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) satellites monitor Hezbollah cellular devices, wireless networks, and encrypted communications. These satellites intercept communications traffic, which is then analyzed for patterns, critical information, and target identification. AI-powered systems can quickly sift through massive amounts of intercepted data, spotting unusual spikes in communications or operational changes that indicate imminent movements or plans within Hezbollah.
3. Cyberwarfare and Hacking Capabilities:
Israel has invested heavily in cyberwarfare, and artificial intelligence plays a major role in cyber espionage and offensive cyber operations. Israeli cyber units can penetrate Hezbollah’s digital infrastructure, intercepting emails, messages, and tactical communications, as well as disrupting the group’s internal networks. AI systems help Israeli intelligence gather data and automate countermeasures, such as spreading disinformation or disabling critical systems. By penetrating Hezbollah’s secure communications and databases, Israel gathers valuable intelligence, improves situational awareness, and even prepares preemptive strikes based on this knowledge.
4. Drone surveillance and AI integration:
In addition to satellite reconnaissance, Israel makes extensive use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, to serve as surveillance assets and platforms for targeted strikes. Often controlled by artificial intelligence algorithms, these drones can monitor specific areas in real time, collect high-resolution video footage, and transmit that information to intelligence analysts for immediate action. Drones equipped with advanced sensors and cyber tools can hack into local communications networks without being detected, further expanding the reach of Israel’s intelligence-gathering apparatus.
Good lord — how do they find the time and manpower to actually fight?
Once this data is decrypted, consolidated, and analyzed, Israeli military and intelligence officers use pattern recognition to pinpoint high-value targets like Sayyed Nasrallah. This process is designed not only to provide direct intelligence on Nasrallah’s location, but also to identify locations that he or his lieutenants are likely to use repeatedly, allowing Israel to plan targeted strikes with minimal collateral damage.
85-TON STRIKE:
If Israel dropped 85 one-ton explosives using bombs like the GBU-31 JDAM or SPICE 2000, it would require at least 42 F-15Es and F-16s to carry out the strike, which is the required number of aircraft based on their payload capacity.
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) 69th Squadron, also known as the "Hammer Squadron," operates 24 F-15I Ra'am fighters, which led the deadly attack.
The F-15E Strike Eagle is one of the most capable fighters in the Israeli air force for delivering bunker busters like the GBU-31 or SPICE 2000. Each F-15E can carry up to two GBU-31 bombs (each weighing one ton or 2,000 pounds).
Along with the F-15E, support aircraft such as the F-16, electronic warfare fighters and surveillance drones (SEAD missions) will be deployed to suppress enemy air defenses and provide situational awareness throughout the targeting and operational approval process:
Identification of a high-value target such as Nasrallah will be accomplished in real time using satellite intelligence (GEOINT), signals intelligence (SIGINT), unmanned surveillance and human intelligence (HUMINT). Real-time verification will confirm Nasrallah’s location, ensuring that the risk to civilians is low while the precision of the strike is prioritized. This phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on the strategic importance and clarity of the intelligence.
Once the intelligence is verified, the information is passed on to the IDF General Command and the Israeli Air Force (IAF) for operational planning. A mission of this magnitude requires final approval from the Israeli Prime Minister (Benjamin Netanyahu) after a detailed briefing by Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
Given the nature and urgency of such a high-priority target, the decision-making process could take minutes. Once approval is received, the IAF will begin preparing the aircraft, which includes loading munitions (such as the GBU-31 JDAM and SPICE 2000 bombs), briefing the pilots just hours before the attack, and coordinating the strike. Given Israel’s advanced level of military readiness, this phase will likely take several hours.
The timing of the operation will depend on intelligence on Nasrallah’s location. The fact that the pilots were briefed just hours before the operation began suggests the urgency of the mission. However, the broader strategic decision was likely in the works for days or weeks, with the IDF waiting for the precise moment when Nasrallah's presence would be confirmed.
The entire process, from target confirmation to mission execution, could take anywhere from a few hours to half a day, with final execution taking 30 minutes to an hour to reach Beirut's Dahiya. The distance from Israeli air bases such as Ramat David Air Base or Hatzor Air Base to Beirut is relatively short, with F-15E fighters taking 30 minutes to an hour to reach the target.
BUNKER BUSTERS AND THEIR EFFECTS:
- GBU-31 JDAM (1-ton variant):
This bomb is a GPS-guided munition used to deliver precision strikes against hard-to-reach targets. The sheer volume of bombs used (85 tons) results in massive destruction, with each bomb designed to penetrate hardened structures before detonating.
- SPICE 2000:
This is an Israeli-developed smart bomb that has been used extensively in Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza. Like the GBU-31, the SPICE 2000 is a precision-guided munition that can target underground bunkers and hardened command centers.
- Impact on Buildings:
Hitting bunkers with 85-ton bombs causes massive damage. The bombs can penetrate deep into the ground or through hardened structures before exploding. This explains the crater that is 15 to 30 meters deep and the collapse of many buildings. The penetrating ability of the bombs ensures that they cause significant damage not only to the buildings they are aimed at, but also to nearby buildings, effectively “sucking” neighboring buildings in.
A successful assassination of Nasrallah could strengthen Netanyahu’s position among Israel’s security-minded right-wing electorate. The operation would be hailed as a major victory in removing a significant threat to Israel’s security. While Nasrallah’s assassination could be a temporary blow and catch Hezbollah off guard, it could also provoke retaliatory strikes from Hezbollah, potentially escalating the wider conflict. Israel is escalating by demanding that the population of southern Lebanon, Beirut, and the Bekaa stay away from any Hezbollah office or headquarters. This means forcibly expelling civilians and preparing to destroy Lebanon’s Shiite region unless Hezbollah turns the tables on Prime Minister Netanyahu and seizes the initiative.
STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS:
Israel continues to target Hezbollah’s military infrastructure and leadership, not just the top brass but also the second and third tiers, using its vast intelligence resources accumulated over many years. While the Netanyahu administration is encouraged by what it perceives as a victory in the air campaign against Lebanon, the shift in focus from military capabilities to individual leaders reflects a broader strategy of decapitation – a tactic designed to destabilize Hezbollah’s command structure, disrupt its operations, and threaten its existence.
The air war in Lebanon provides Netanyahu with what he believes is a historic opportunity to decisively weaken Hezbollah. Israel’s refocusing of its military efforts on Lebanon has also eased domestic pressure on the Netanyahu government, providing it with a respite from the political fallout from the recent war in Gaza. However, the conflict is far from over.
Hezbollah has yet to fully respond. The group is currently regrouping and rethinking its strategy. With a new leader appointed following the announcement of Sayyed Nasrallah’s martyrdom, it is only a matter of time before Hezbollah makes its next move. The battlefield remains the deciding factor, and the real impact of these strikes will become apparent in the coming days.
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From news reports, it seems you couldn't swing a cat in southern Lebanon without taking out several hezbollah personel.
Presents a good arguement for carpetbombing.
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[IsraelTimes] New Hope leader delivers fiery Knesset speech to heckling from colleagues, calls opposition MKs ‘gang of liars,’ says Nasrallah would still be alive if PM had listened to Lapid
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I don't think people really understand all these "green energy" projects. It's like pyramids of Egypt - objects of religious worship, with no practical value.
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#2 Yea, but China is far away while Egypt is next door. I actually served on the border - we used to swap with Egyptian soldiers: two PX candy bars for a pack of cigarettes.
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[EngMilRu] Russian Federation Armed Forces continue the special military operation.
In Liptsy and Volchansk directions, the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of the 57th Motorised Infantry Brigade of the AFU, 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, and 113th Territorial Defence Brigade near Liptsy, Volchansk, and Volchanskye Khutora (Kharkov region).
Up to 75 troops, one infantry fighting vehicle, and nine motor vehicles of the enemy have been neutralised.
The Zapad Group of Forces has improved the situation along the front line and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of 14th, 44th, 53rd and 63rd Mechanised brigades of the AFU, 117th Territorial Defence Brigade, 1st National Guard Brigade near Berestovoye (Kharkov region), Nevskoye, Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic), Serebryanka, and Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Two counter-attacks launched by assault groups of 14th and 116th Mechanised brigades of the AFU were repelled. The AFU sustained losses amounted to up to 425 troops, one tank, five motor vehicles, one Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, two UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzers, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and two Anklav-N electronic warfare stations. Five ammunition depots were eliminated.
The Yug Group of Forces took more favourable lines and defeated formations of the 24th, 30th, 54th, 72nd Mechanised brigades, 56th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 143rd Infantry Brigade, 128th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and 119th Territorial Defence Brigade near Konstantinovka, Fyodorovka, Zaliznyanskoye, Mayskoye, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Druzhkovka, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).
One counter-attack launched by a unit of the 5th Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was repelled. The AFU losses amounted to up to 560 troops, one tank, eight motor vehicles, two U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzers, one UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer, one 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, one UK-made 105mm L-119 howitzer, one U.S.-made 105mm M-119 gun, and Nota electronic warfare station.
The Tsentr Group of Forces has liberated Nelepovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
In addition, they inflicted damage on manpower and hardware of the 47th, 150th, 151st Mechanised brigades, 95th Air Assault Brigade, 25th Airborne Brigade, 68th Jaeger Brigade of the AFU, 109th, 116th, 119th Territorial Defence brigades, 12th and 15th National Guard brigades near Kleban-Byk, Selidovo, Dzerzhinsk, Nikolayevka, Lysovka, Tsukurino, Sukhaya Balka, Druzhba, and Shevchenko (Donetsk People's Republic).
Nine counter-attacks launched by assault groups of the 28th, 47th, 150th, 151st, 154th Mechanised brigades and 25th Airborne Brigade of the AFU were repelled. The AFU losses amounted to up to 630 troops, two Kozak armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, and one 122mm D-30 gun.
The Vostok Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and hit manpower and hardware of the 72nd Mechanised Brigade, 58th Motorised Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 127th Territorial Defence Brigade near Dobrovolye, Zolotaya Niva, and Rovnopol (Donetsk People's Republic).
Two counterattacks launched by assault groups of the 72nd Mechanised Brigade of the AFU were repelled. The AFU losses amounted to up to 120 troops, one infantry fighting vehicle, eight motor vehicles, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer. Two ammunition depots were wiped out.
The Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of the 35th Naval Infantry Brigade, 39th Coastal Defence Brigade, and 108th and 124th Territorial Defence brigades near Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region), Antonovka (Kherson region), and Kherson.
The enemy suffered losses of up to 85 troops, ten motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm Paladin howitzer, and one Anklav-N electronic warfare station.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have hit: an ammunition depot, a missile-artillery ammunition depot, airfield infrastructure, a military echelon in the offloading site, as well as clusters of enemy manpower and military hardware in 124 areas.
Air defence units shot down four U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 24 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 646 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 32,527 unmanned aerial vehicles, 579 anti-aircraft missile systems, 18,460 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,469 MLRS combat vehicles, 15,400 field artillery guns and mortars, and 26,741 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.
The Sever Group of Forces continues the offensive operation and engaged formations of 21st, 22nd, 115th Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 82nd and 95th Air Assault brigades of the AFU, 1st National Guard Brigade, 36th Naval Infntry Brigade, as well as 103rd and 129th Territorial Defence brigades near Lyubimovka, Daryino, Novy Put, Nikolayevo-Daryino, and Plekhovo.
Over the past 24 hours, the Group's units repelled two enemy counterattacks in the direction of Lyubimovka and Plekhovo, and thwarted the enemy's attempts to attack in the direction of Olgovka and Kamyshevka. As a result, the AFU losses amounted to up to 60 troops killed and wounded, two armoured fighting vehicles, and a motor vehicle.
With the support of Army Aviation and artillery fire, five AFU attempts to break through the border of the Russian Federation towards Novy Put were foiled. The AFU sustained losses of more than 30 troops killed and wounded; three armoured fighting vehicles, one motor vehicle, and one U.S.-made M-88 recovery vehicle were eliminated.
Army aviation and artillery strikes inflicted losses on manpower and hardware clusters of the 22nd, 41st, 61st, Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 80th and 95th Air Assault brigades, 1st and 17th National Guard brigades, 36th Marine Brigade, 103rd and 129th territorial defence brigades of the AFU near Bogdanovka, Bondarevka, Daryino, Kubatkin, Kurilovka, Knyazhy Pervy, Kazachya Loknya, Lyubimovka, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Mikhaylovka, Makhovka, Novy Put, Novaya Sorochina, Orlovka, Plekhovo, Pravda, Russkoye Porechnoye, Tolsty Lug, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye.
Operational-Tactical Aviation and Missile Troops have inflicted fire damage in Sumy region on concentration areas and reserves of the 21st, 41st, 47th, and 115th Mechanised brigades, 80th and 95th Air Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 1st National Guard Brigade, as well as the 101st, 103rd, and 107th Territorial Defence brigades close to Belovody, Budivilnoye, Glukhov, Kiyanitsa, Klevan, Kucherovka, Makeyevka, Obody, Pavlovka, Peremoga, Revyakino, Rechki, Studenok, Shalygino, and Yastrebshchina.
In the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 350 troops, eight armoured vehicles, including an infantry fighting vehicle, an armoured personnel carrier, and six armoured fighting vehicles, as well as four artillery guns, one Tunguska anti-aircraft missile gun system, one Israeli-made Rada SAM radar, one U.S.-made M-88 recovery vehicle, and 12 motor vehicles.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost more than 18,900 troops, 133 tanks, 65 infantry fighting vehicles, 98 armoured personnel carriers, 856 armoured fighting vehicles, 562 motor vehicles, 150 artillery guns, 33 MLRS launchers, including eight of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, nine SAM launchers, five transport-loading vehicles, 38 electronic warfare stations and nine counter-battery radars, three air defence radars, 19 engineering and other vehicles, including 11 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, and two armoured recovery vehicles.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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I use to ask why Congress refused to use the 25th.
Then I came to see and understood Harris is far more controllable, because she does not have a Dr. Jill.
This is the most VEEP-like photo ever -- pretending to be on a phone call but forgetting to plug in the antiquated earphones while pretending to write on a blank piece of paper instead of actually doing anything. https://t.co/tkzHPplKhe
Hezbollah's Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem says that the Resistance Movement's forces are ready for any scenario and are fully prepared for any possible Israeli land incursion.https://t.co/ASseWaX6Ka
The Times of Israel adds the interesting detail that the deputy secretary general appeared to be sweating profusely throughout his speech. Was he in an airless place? Merely without air conditioning on a hot day? Nervously awaiting his own personal bunker buster?
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[NewsFront] 21:35 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
South Donetsk direction: assault on Ugledar and advance along the Vodyanoye-Katerinovka line.
Russian troops continue to advance in several areas of the South Donetsk direction.
– In Ugledar, several high-rise buildings on the western outskirts have come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces; footage of Russian flags over multi-story buildings No. 9 and 10 on Molodezhnaya Street has appeared online. In the south of the city, a sleeping and medical building has come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. Thus, only the central part of the city remains under enemy control, the remaining roads to which are under fire control.
– At the same time, fighting continues on the eastern outskirts of the city; according to our information, small groups of the enemy are trying to retreat by landing to the north, but overall the Ukrainian Armed Forces are still managing to hold the defense.
– On the Konstantinovka-Vodyanoye line, Russian troops also advanced in several areas, taking a stronghold south of Katerinovka and forest belts south and north of the Solyonenkaya gully. Attacks by the Russian Armed Forces were also recorded north of Konstantinovka.
– To the west of Prechistovka, Russian troops had already advanced significantly in the direction of Zolotaya Niva by September 29, advancing from the south and east. In all likelihood, battles for the village will begin in the near future.
20:59 Sumy and Poltava regions.
It is reported, that as a result of the night strike on military facilities, a Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicle parking lot and the Bukovel-AD radar station were hit. Russian aviation used Kh-59 and Kh-69 missiles against enemy targets.
20:20 They report, that they have also clung to the western outskirts of Ugledar. There is not much time left.
19:59 Ugledar.
Consequences of military operations in Ugledar. Servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces are installing the flag of the Russian Federation on a multi-story building in the western part of Ugledar, confirming confident control of this part of the city. The advance of the Russian Armed Forces towards Ugledar is more than 2 km from the western direction.
19:01 Rocket artillery crews of the Sever group struck a concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and equipment in the Khar'kov region –video.
In real time, objective control means recorded the destruction of temporary locations of enemy personnel and military equipment.
18:48 Toretsk.
Advance of our troops have accelerated! The center of Toretsk is about 500 m - 1 km away.
18:12 Ka-52M crews struck at Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower and armored vehicles in the border area of Kursk Oblast –video.
17:50 Selidovo.
Active combat action in the Selidovo area. Attack of the Russian Armed Forces by motorized rifle units on the northern outreach of the city. artillery attack of assault equipment by the Ukrainian Armed Forces near a gas station on the highway to Krasnoarmeysk. Advancement of the Russian Armed Forces 1.5 km north of Selidovo.
17:14 Statements by representatives of the North, West, South, Center, East and Dnepr groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of September 30, 2024) –video.
16:41 Special military operation. Situation as of September 30 –map.
16:06 Control and advancement zones of the Russian Armed Forces –map.
– Advance of the Russian Armed Forces south of the settlement of Plekhovo (another eight square kilometers of Kursk region territory were liberated in 24 hours).
– Advance of the 144th Guards Motorized Rifle Division near Nevsky
. 15:52 Artillerymen use the tactics of a fire carousel in support of the offensive actions of assault units –video.
The task of the 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled gun crews is not only to destroy equipment and strong points, but also to generally disorient the enemy where the assault groups are going on the offensive.
15:15 Su-25 crews launched air-launched missiles at Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and a stronghold in the border area of ??Kursk Oblast –video.
According to intelligence reports, the Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and stronghold were destroyed.
14:47 Svatovo – Makeyevka.
Positional military actions in the Svatovo area. The forward position of the Russian Armed Forces in the residential part of Makeyevka came under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Russian Armed Forces advanced 600 meters in the village and took up new positions in the southern part.
13:37 RF Armed Forces officiall yreleased the village of Nelepovka between Novgorodskoye (former New York) and Dzerzhinsk (former Toretsk). Fighting for Dzerzhinsk and Leonidovka also continues.
13:21 An Iskander-M missile system launched a missile strike on a railway train unloading site in the village of Kazanka in the Nikolaev region –video.
As a result of the strike, 12 train cars containing ammunition, including Western-made ones, were destroyed.
12:49 Lancet strike: footage of a Ukrainian infantry group being hit by a loitering munition near the settlement of Volchansk in the Khar'kov region –video.
12:17 Footage of objective control of the destruction of ammunition depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system crew carried out a missile strike on the identified ammunition depots for the Ukrainian Armed Forces missile systems on the territory of the Yuzhmash plant in the village of Dnepropetrovsk.
11:53 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Aleksandro-Kalinovskoye direction: advance of the Russian Armed Forces in Dzerzhinsk and the outskirts of Novgorodskoye (New York).
Russian troops continue their offensive in the east and within the borders of Dzerzhinsk, driving out the enemy with the support of artillery and aviation.
- In the area of the block of multi-storey buildings on 91st Division Street, the enemy launched several fairly large-scale counterattacks, but was unable to hold on in the building. Now the Russian Armed Forces are breaking through to the northwest in the direction of Geroev Truda Street along several parallel streets from Kemerovskaya to Pushkarenko.
- To the south, Russian troops are gradually expanding the control zone to the west of IK No. 2, several streets in the private sector have already been cleared of the enemy. At the same time, it is still not possible to occupy the waste heap to the south due to the high activity of Ukrainian UAVs.
– In the Zabalka area, the Russian Armed Forces have apparently slowed down somewhat due to the continued presence of the enemy in the forests to the east and frequent counterattacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Shcherbinovka. There have been no reports or other evidence of progress for quite some time.
– On the Leonidovka-Novgorodskoye (New York) line, several forest belts to the west of the Krivoy Torets River have come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. The enemy here relies on heights 184 and 164 in the forest belts and on a chain of strong points.
If the offensive in this area is developed successfully, Russian troops will be able to increase the pressure on Leonidovka, which will improve the situation in Dzerzhinsk for the Russian Armed Forces.
– Meanwhile, west of Novgorodskoye, the advance of the Russian Armed Forces is also being recorded in the direction of Sukha Balka, where a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was taken, as well as Panteleimonovka, where the enemy was driven out of several wide forest belts.
11:11 Toretsk.
The persistent and gradual progress continues to advance assault units of the RF Armed Forces. At night and early in the morning, our troops managed to advance even closer to the center of Toretsk, taking several streets under fire control.
10:46 Novomikhaylovka – Katerinovka.
Positional military actions in the Novomikhaylovka area. Russian military transport was fired upon from a Ukrainian drone at a position south of Katerinovka. New positions of the Russian Armed Forces to the west of Novomikhaylovka with an advance of at least 700 meters.
10:15 During the past night 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.
Two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region by air defense systems on duty.
09:45 Crews of 152mm 2S19 self-propelled howitzers "Msta-S" destroyed UAV control point, armored vehicles and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
The scouts of the "West" group of forces identified a UAV control point, armored vehicles and Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel. The corresponding coordinates were transmitted, after which the artillerymen destroyed the identified targets with fire from 152mm self-propelled howitzers "Msta-S".
09:20 Improving the "birds"
- Donetsk direction
Near the front linedeployeda workshop where ammunition for quadcopter-type UAVs is modified.
Specialists have the ability to improve the attachment of charges to the body of drones, increase the power of drops, and combine types of damaging elements.
08:56 Telegram channel «WarGonzo»:
Frontline report for the morning of 30.09.2024
- Zaporizhzhya Front. Mainly positional battles continue. Without significant changes.
– Donetsk Front. Russian troops continue to storm Ugoedar. The logistics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are extremely complicated, and the positions of Ukrainian troops in the city are being hit by long-range weapons of the Russian Armed Forces.
The movement toward Pokrovsk continues. There are reports that Russian troops have reached the approaches to Tsukurino from three sides, taking the settlement in a semi-encirclement.
In the Selidovo area, the Russian Armed Forces are also bypassing the settlement on the flanks. Fierce fighting continues in Dzerzhinsk.
- Chasovoyarsk direction. Fighting is underway in the eastern part of the city. Russian troops continue to improve their positions on the flanks.
- Khar'kov Front. No major changes in LBS. Fighting continues in Volchansk and in the Glubokoe area.
- Kursk region. Counter battles continue in Sudzhansky district. No significant changes in LBS. In Glushkovsky district, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to try to break through in the Vesyoloye area, but are rebuffed each time.
08:00 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Chronicle of the special military operation for September 28-29, 2024
– Russian troops have hit the infrastructure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in several regions of the so-called Ukraine and in the occupied territories of Russia. In Zaporozhye, the Motor Sich enterprise has come under attack again.– Ukrainian forces carried out a massive UAV raid that affected seven Russian regions. Air defense systems intercepted 125 drones, there were no casualties.
– In the Kursk direction, Ukrainian formations are not giving up their attempts to drive the Russian Armed Forces out of Veseloye; fighting has also been noted in the Sudzhansky district.
- In the Liman direction, Russian troops liberated Makeyevka and drove the enemy out of the surrounding forest belts. To the south, fighting is underway in the Nevsky area.
– In the Pokrovsk direction, Russian troops have driven the enemy out of two strongholds north of Grodovka, effectively breaking through the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ line of defense located there. According to some reports, the Russian Armed Forces have also established control over the Novogrodovskaya mine waste heap No. 2.
– In the Donetsk direction, Russian troops have driven the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of several positions on the eastern approaches to Tsukurino and captured a district stronghold north of Gornyak. At the same time, information has emerged about the Russian Armed Forces clearing a “pocket” in the Nevelskoye area.
– In the South Donetsk direction, Russian troops are advancing in the Katerynivka area. Further south, the assault on Ugledar continues, and a semi-ring of Russian troops is gradually tightening around the Ukrainian formations in the city.
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[REGNUM] Russian troops continue to push back the enemy along the entire front in Donbass. Heavy fighting, in particular, continues in the Toretsk area, where units of the Russian Armed Forces liberated the village of Nelepovka the day before. However, the key events are taking place in the Ugledar area.
The battle for the city has been going on for several years now, as the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been able to fortify this strategically important settlement. Several highways converge in the Ugledar area, including the route to Mariupol. Until the summer of 2024, the Ukrainian army command considered the Ugledar bridgehead as a starting point for a possible counteroffensive on Volnovakha or Mariupol.
At the same time, control over the city is extremely important for holding the front southwest of Donetsk. Using several multi-story buildings in the city center as observation points, the Ukrainian Armed Forces kept a large area of territory under fire control.
Until recently, the Ukrainian army managed to organize defense in Ugledar and on the approaches to it. However, as the Russian army advanced in the area of Pokrovsk and Kurakhovo, the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison was under threat of encirclement.
According to information from the field, the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which was holding the front section, suffered heavy losses, but the command preferred to send reserves to the Kursk region, thereby weakening the front in Donbass.
According to the latest information, Russian troops have broken through the front and penetrated the enemy's defenses north and west of Ugledar. There are also reports that fighting is already underway on the outskirts of the city itself. At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison has only one supply route left, since Russian troops previously occupied the road to Maryinka and took fire control of the road from Ugledar to Bogoyavlenovka.
Ukrainian troops are once again faced with a dilemma: to hold the city to the last in the conditions of a gradually forming encirclement or to retreat while there is still an opportunity. According to a source of the Regnum news agency located in the Ugledar direction, Ukrainian troops may decide to break through in the near future.
"There is essentially nothing to hold there. The private sector is destroyed, the positions in the five-story buildings were previously targeted by FABs by aviation, you can't hold there either. So, most likely, they will try to retreat, they may still try now. But let's be honest - they are facing a "road of death", because drones are working closely along the entire road. But they most likely will not fight to the end," the source predicts.
An information campaign to prepare public opinion for the surrender of Ugledar has already begun in the Ukrainian media. The publications note that the city has no strategic significance and the withdrawal of the garrison will improve the position of the Ukrainian army forces along the entire front.
In fact, the retreat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Ugledar could lead to the collapse of the entire Ukrainian defense on this section of the front, since the Russian army would have an opening to attack the settlement of Kurakhovo. Currently, military actions are taking place on the eastern outskirts of the city, but in the event of a breakthrough from Ugledar, the enemy forces in Kurakhovo would also be at risk of encirclement.
Fighting continues in the Pokrovsky direction, where Russian troops are preparing to fight for the village of Selidovo.
Earlier, the Defense Ministry reported that the settlement of Ukrainsk had come under the control of the Center group of troops. Later, it became known that the advancing troops also managed to advance westward and cut the highway between Selidovo and Kurakhovo.
And even before that, Russian troops liberated the village of Novogrodovka, located north of Selidovo, and advanced in the direction of the highway to Pokrovsk. In fact, the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison in Selidovo is also threatened with encirclement. According to reports from the field, the Ukrainian military in the city are not preparing for protracted battles and will most likely retreat when the road to Pokrovsk is cut off.
The situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces is even worse to the south, in the area of the village of Gornyak, which is directly stated by Ukrainian resources. The day before, the DeepState portal published photos of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defensive structures created in this area. Observers note that the quality of the fortifications does not allow for long-term defense.
At the same time, this section of the front has more powerful defensive lines, but there are not enough troops to hold them. The situation is similar in the entire Pokrovsk direction, observers note.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the Gornyak area are facing the greatest difficulties, sources of the Regnum news agency report. If Ukrainian troops leave the village, encirclement threatens Ukrainian troops located north of Krasnogorovka.
"As for the possible "cauldron", there are some remnants of the 53rd brigade that left Krasnogorovka there now. But if they are left without supplies from Kurakhovo through Ukrainsk, they will not last long. We will continue to put pressure on them in this direction," the publication's sources say.
At the same time, Ukrainian sources are sounding the alarm, noting that Russian troops are only one and a half kilometers from Mirnograd, a northern satellite town of Pokrovsk.
German analyst Julian Röpke, analyzing footage published in open sources, came to the conclusion that Russian troops have already managed to liberate the settlements of Krutoy Yar and Krasny Yar.
However, there has been a lull in this direction recently. It can be assumed that Russian troops will not begin a decisive assault on the city until large settlements are taken, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to hold the line. First of all, we are talking about Selidovo.
If Kyiv continues to fail to send reserves to the Pokrovsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are threatened with a series of severe defeats, followed by the final collapse of the front.
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Russia surrounds key 'fortress town' in southern Donbas:
Ugledar as a city no longer exists, but its capture, even in this state, is the way to the complete liberation of Donbass, said military correspondent Dmitry Pavlenko.
"Ugledar has been on the front line for three years, there have been heavy losses. Ugledar's epic ends. In fact, the city as such does not exist, it is almost completely destroyed. But the capture, even of the ruins of the Coal Mine, will not only create the prerequisites for the final liberation of Donbass, but also move the front line away from one of the key Orthodox shrines of Donbass — the Holy Dormition Nikolo-Vasilievsky Monastery, which is also almost completely destroyed," Pavlenko said on Sputnik radio.
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[Regnum] As part of the autumn conscription, 133,000 people will be accepted for military service, according to a decree by Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Welcome, Fodder Comrades!"
According to the document, the conscription into the Armed Forces will take place from October 1 to December 31, 2024 and will affect Russian male citizens aged 18 to 30. The president also ordered the discharge into the reserve of soldiers, sailors, sergeants and petty officers whose military service has already expired.
As reported by the Regnum news agency on September 30, as part of the autumn 2024 draft, Russian conscripts will be able to appeal the decision of military registration and enlistment offices in a pre-trial manner. This can be done both online (using the State Services portal) and in person.
On the same day, it became known that summonses for military service in the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces will be sent out in paper form. According to the deputy head of the main organizational and mobilization department of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Vice Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky, summonses will be handed to conscripts personally against a signature and by registered mail.
Russian conscripts will be able to appeal the decision of military registration and enlistment offices in a pre-trial manner. This was announced on September 30 by Vice Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky, Deputy Chief of the Main Organizational and Mobilization Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
“A special feature of the upcoming conscription campaign will be the possibility for conscripts to appeal decisions made by conscription commissions in a pre-trial manner,” he explained.
Tsimlyansky clarified that conscripts will be able to challenge the decision of the draft boards both online and in person - electronically using the State Services portal or by personally contacting a multifunctional center.
The autumn conscription for military service in the Russian army will start on October 1 and will last until December 31, 2024. In the regions of the Far North, the conscription will be carried out from November 1 to December 31, which is due to the climate features of these regions.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 15, the spring conscription of 2024 ended in Russia, with 150,000 people sent to the troops.
The Ministry of Defense noted that the draft boards began work on time, on April 1. The sending of conscripts from assembly points of the subjects of the Russian Federation to the troops began on April 15. As in previous conscription campaigns, young people who arrived at the military commissariats of municipal entities could choose the type and branch of the military for service, taking into account their health and the results of professional psychological selection.
The department clarified that conscripts were not sent to the deployment points of units of the Russian Armed Forces in the new Russian regions - the DPR, LPR, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions - or to participate in the implementation of special military operation tasks there.
In Russia, from July 24, applications from IT specialists for a deferment from military service as part of the autumn draft began to be accepted. Applications could be submitted via the State Services portal until August 6.
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[Regnum] Specialists from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences discovered a treasure dating back to the last quarter of the 10th century during excavations in Veliky Novgorod.
…one of the oldest cities in Russia, it dates back to the 9th century AD and is a listed World Heritage Site…
This was reported on September 30 by the press service of the institution.
On their page on the social network VKontakte, representatives of the institute specified that the treasure was located on the Sofia side of the city. It contains about 1.9 thousand items, of which 1.8 thousand are silver coins.
The main coins in question are dirhams from the Arab Caliphate. According to archaeologists, the oldest of the coins was issued between 974 and 975. In addition, the institute's employees found about 80 pieces of jewelry.
The institution emphasized that the treasure was the fourth in a row, and also the largest in terms of silver weight and number of items among those discovered in the early cultural layers of Veliky Novgorod.
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Plunder of raids on Iberian Spain or Payment of members of Varangian Guard- "...dirhams from the Arab Caliphate. issued between 974 and 975...about 80 pieces of jewelry".
Wiki cite: "The dirham was struck in many Mediterranean countries, including Al-Andalus (Moorish Spain) and the Byzantine Empire (miliaresion), and could be used as currency in Europe between the 10th and 12th centuries, notably in areas with Viking connections..."
[GEO.TV] Elon Musk's vision of establishing human colonies on Mars in the next 20 years is likely to face substantial challenges as the planet's harsh conditions pose the risk of turning humans green.
Not only that, experts have revealed that the Red Planet's harsh conditons could lead to other significant health risks for humans settling there, despite the SpaceX founder's amibitious timeline to send the first Starship to Mars within the next two years.
In light of the potential risks that Musk's plan may ensue, experts emphasised the formidable obstacles that must be overcome for human survival and prosperity on Mars.
Biologist Dr Scott Solomon, from Rice University in Texas, said that the children born to human settlers on Mars could undergo significant mutations and evolutionary changes, Indy100 reported.
According to Solomon, these changes include weakened muscles, compromised eyesight, greenish pigmentation, and brittle bones, as a result of high radiation and low gravitation forces.
Mars is smaller than Earth in size with 30% less gravity than humans have evolved to live with.
Additionally, the Red Planet lacks a magnetic field and protective ozone layer, leaving the planet open to space radiation, UV and charged particles from the sun and cosmic rays.
Solomon revealed that the impact could see humans mutate at extreme rates just to survive in the new conditions, resulting in a change in skin colour to help cope with radiation.
"Perhaps in the face of this high radiation, we might evolve some new type of skin pigment to help us deal with that radiation," Solomon explained in his book, 'Future Humans'. "Maybe we get our own green men."
We already have a skin pigment to cope with radiation: melanin. We reduced it to deal with lower UV levels in latitudes far north of our native Africa — those naturally paler people develop suntans when exposed to higher levels of sunlight. On the other hand, having chlorophyl as well as melanin would be pretty cool — like having solar panels as well as a natural gas furnace.
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Well the asteroid Eros has more precious metals then even the Earth's core and the surface of the moon is littered with gems never eroded by water or wind (and yes the diamonds on the moon have a different C12-C13-C14 ratio as the NASA moon astronauts found out too their financial loss and likely a big part of the reason those with gold and gems were strongly behind the end of exploring the moon...) but mining the space stuff is much better then strip mining and tunneling the same on earth. Much greener too.
I don’t even care if it’s true. It’s just falling-down funny that he said it. Also, now everyone else who has an anti-Mossad section is going to be very concerned about whether they really know Uncle Ahmed’s grandson as well as they thought they did.
[IsraelNationalNews] In an interview with the Turkish CNN network on Monday, former President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, claimed that a unit had been set up to fight against Mossad agents inside Iran — but the head of the unit was a Mossad agent himself.
He also claimed that in addition to the head of the unit, twenty Israeli Mossad agents were working with him and were responsible for directing significant intelligence operations inside Iran.
Among others, according to Ahmadinejad, the same Mossad agents stole documents about the Iranian nuclear program and killed several Iranian nuclear scientists.
He also claimed that all the agents managed to flee Iran before being caught and that they now live in Israel. Sigh of relief: agent SAK is safe!
Ahmadinejad made this claim today for the first time, but as of now, no confirmation or, alternatively, a denial has been published by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
In recent years, Ahmadinejad has been far from the helm of power and has tried several times to run again for the position of president of Iran, but was disqualified.
The last time he ran an election campaign was after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a plane crash.
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in an interview with @cnnturk said that Iran’s secret services had created a special unit to combat Mossad operating in Iran. However, turns out the head of this unit was himself a Mossad… pic.twitter.com/35fKhqEeTt
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I wonder if the Mossad just uses a telephone directory of the Iranian government to make unsolicited random after hours voicemail calls from Israel to offices and cell phones of officials they want MOIS (SAVAK) to investigate? "Amir, did you get the check?"
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanaani, condemned the Zionist entity's attacks on fuel tanks and the power station at the Port of Hodeidah.
Kanaani described these brutal attacks, which resulted in the destruction of the civilian infrastructure of the Port of Hodeidah in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , as a reflection of the inhumane nature of the Zionist entity.
''The crimes of the Zionist entity are carried out under the unconditional support of the American regime, and Washington is a full partner in the crimes committed by the criminal gang ruling in Tel Aviv,'' he added. ''The supporters of this entity, including the US government, are directly responsible for the serious and unforeseen consequences of the continued Zionist crimes in Paleostine and 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... , as well as the aggressive and reckless attacks on Yemen.''
Kanaani further explained that the Zionist entity's attacks on Yemen, as well as on the country's civilian and service infrastructure, constitute a flagrant and repeated violation of the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Charter and international norms.
In conclusion, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson once again warned of the consequences of the Zionist entity's actions in provoking wars and threatening regional and international peace and security.
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[Regnum] Federal Security Service officers prevented a series of terrorist attacks against law enforcement officers in Ingushetia. This was reported on September 30 by the Public Relations Center (PRC) of the FSB of Russia.
Also, according to the department, the criminals were planning a series of acts of sabotage at energy facilities.
The illegal activities of eight local residents, citizens of the Russian Federation, were stopped by security forces as a result of measures taken in the cities of Magas and Nazran.
“During the arrest, one criminal offered armed resistance and received injuries incompatible with life; the rest were arrested,” the department clarified.
The security forces conducted searches at the addresses of the detainees and in equipped hiding places and caches. In them they found a homemade explosive device with a capacity of about 10 kg in TNT equivalent, a grenade launcher, machine guns, pistols, grenades with fuses, as well as more than 8,500 cartridges of various calibers.
Investigators opened criminal cases against the suspects under articles of the Russian Criminal Code on preparation for sabotage, illegal arms trafficking, and illegal manufacture of explosive devices.
[FoxNews] The proposed lawsuit against the Secret Service takes aim at a reported agency goal to reach a 30% female workforce.
A nonprofit defending women's issues plans to sue the U.S. Secret Service for what it alleges is an "arbitrary" diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) initiative that harms female employees.
The proposed lawsuit from the Independent Women's Forum (IWF) comes more than two months after some pointed fingers at female USSS agents assigned to former President Trump's detail at his July 13 presidential campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a 20-year-old shooter gained access to a nearby rooftop and shot at Trump with an automatic rifle.
"In our country, it is illegal for the government to discriminate on the basis of sex. That is the Constitution's 14th Amendment," May Mailman, director of the group's Independent Women's Law Center, told Fox News Digital. "But also Title VII prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of sex. And yet you have the Secret Service, of all agencies, saying that they want to have a 30% female quota."
A Secret Service spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the agency does not comment on pending litigation matters.
[IsraelNationalNews] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed recent developments in the war and the start of the High Holidays this week at the start of the Government meeting today (Monday).
"First, I would like to greet all of the ministers, and our colleague Gideon Saar, who has joined us," Netanyahu began. "We face major challenges. We will face them together and we will do the work that the people of Israel, and the generations of the people of Israel, expect that we will do."
"On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, we are in decisive days. These are days of historic achievements but also of major challenges that we face," he said.
Netanyahu continued, "I would like to commend our commanders and soldiers in the IDF and all of the security services, who are excelling in striking our enemies and enabling our people to stand tall with pride."
"I would like to stand by our heroic soldiers, conscripts and reservists. While we celebrate the new year, may it be a good one, they will continue to defend our country with that same dedication, sacrifice and heroism that they have shown throughout the past year," he said.
He added, "I would like to stand by the families of the fallen, thanks to who we live here. I send best wishes for a quick and full recovery to all of the dear wounded. I would like to stand by the dear families of the hostages; our hostages are always first and foremost with us, and we will not rest until we return them all."
"Finally, I would like to thank all citizens of Israel: The reservists' wives, the mothers and fathers of our fighters, and the children, for being steadfast throughout such a long period," he said.
"We are in a war for our very existence. We will unite, go hand-in-hand and defeat our enemies. The people will arise like a lioness, and the Eternal One of Israel will not lie.
"So ends a year and its curses, and with G-d's help so begins a year and its blessings. May we all have a good year and a happy holiday," Netanyahu concluded.
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[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 Monday denied accusations by the United Arab Emirates that its forces bombed the residence of the UAE ambassador in the capital, Khartoum.
The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday accused the Sudanese army of targeting and bombing the ambassador's residence with aircraft. It said it would submit a protest note to the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... and regional organizations.
The accusations mark an escalation in tensions between Abu Dhabi and Khartoum. Sudanese military leaders have accused the UAE of fuelling the conflict by providing military support to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
''The Sudanese Armed Forces condemn and deny the accusation by the United Arab Emirates of bombing the residence of its ambassador in Khartoum,'' an army spokesperson said in a statement on Monday morning.
The army does not target diplomatic missions, U.N. or aid organizations, nor use them as military bases or loot them, the spokesperson said, adding that the ''Terrorist militia of the Daglo rebels'' was responsible for such acts. The statement further said these rebels are supported by countries known to the world.
The military front man said it targets only locations where the militia is present, which it said was its right to defend the Sudanese state.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Islamic Resistance® in Iraq said it had carried out new operations against Israeli targets in the occupied Paleostinian territories in retaliation for the Tel Aviv regime's devastating war on 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... and its bloody onslaught against 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 umbrella group for Iraq's resistance factions said in statements issued on Sunday night that it had targeted a vital target in the occupied port city of Eilat using drones.
''In continuation of our approach to resisting the occupation, and in support of our people in Paleostine and Lebanon, and in response to the massacres committed by the usurping entity against civilians, including children, women and the elderly, the fighters of the Islamic Resistance® in Iraq today, Sunday 29-09-2024, attacked a vital target in Umm al-Rashrash ''Eilat'' in our occupied lands, using drones,'' one statement said.
The group added that a squadron of drones also struck two other targets in the occupied territories.
Iraq's Islamic resistance said the third operation hit Israeli targets with missiles.
The group stressed that it will continue its anti-Israel operations in support of Paleostinian people in Gaza and Lebanon.
Also on Sunday morning, fighters from the Iraqi anti-terror resistance groups also launched two dronezaps against strategic targets in the southern part of the Israeli-occupied territories.
The Islamic Resistance®grabbed credit for the early Sunday morning attack on the port city of Eilat.
The group noted that it will continue to target and destroy important installations across the occupied lands.
Hours after the drone attack, the Islamic Resistance® announced another strike, saying that it had used unmanned aerial vehicles to hit a vital target in the same Israeli-occupied area.
The Islamic Resistance® in Iraq has been launching attacks on Israeli targets ever since the occupying regime started the genocidal war on Gaza in early October.
The resistance has also been hitting American military bases in Iraq and neighboring Syria in retaliation for Washington's support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced on Monday that the corpse count from the Israeli aggression on the Ain al-Delb area in the city of Sidon in southern 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... has risen to 45, with 70 maimed.
The ministry's statement confirmed that the process of removing the rubble of the building continues in search of missing persons.
The Israeli occupation committed a massacre by bombing an entire residential building housing displaced Lebanese in the Ain al-Delb area on Sunday.
Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste... the Lebanese army reported today that a Lebanese soldier died as a result of his wounds sustained when an Israeli drone targeted a cycle of violence near the Umrah-Wazzani checkpoint of the army.
The Lebanese National News Agency also reported that an artillery shell fell this afternoon near the water tank of the village of Sarda in the Marjayoun District, southern Lebanon.
According to the Lebanese media, an Israeli drone launched three raids on the intersection of the towns of Khiam and Wazzani and the outskirts of the Sarda orchards, which resulted in the killing of two people and the injuring of others.
Hours ago, the Islamic Resistance® Movement ''Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... '' mourned its leader in Lebanon, and a member of the movement's leadership abroad, Fatah Sharif ''Abu al-Amin,'' who was killed along with his wife, son, and daughter in an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... targeted their house in al-Bass camp in southern Lebanon.
[GEO.TV] The total number of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... virus cases recorded in Pakistain this year climbed to 24 on Saturday after a two-and-a-half-year-old child from Sindh's Hyderabad was diagnosed with the virus.
According to sources at the National Emergency Operations Centre, the child, hailing from Hyderabad's Neronkot area, was left paralysed by the virus, marking the city's second polio case,.
The latest case in Hyderabad takes the province's total number of children affected by the current poliovirus outbreak to five.
The latest polio case comes a day after authorities had confirmed that a 10-month-old baby girl in district Kohat of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa was diagnosed with the virus, marking the northwestern province's second case this year.
The infant from Tehsil Darra Adamkhel had contracted the wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) that left her paralysed on September 12.
Before that, authorities had confirmed that a 30-month-old boy from Pishin, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , was struck by the poliovirus marking the province's 15th case this year.
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Tennessee's laws are not Texas's. You can't defend property with lethal force in Tennessee. So nobody wanted the legal trouble of smoking these guys. Now had they gone to deep Appalachia, it wouldn't have made the news cause they'd just...go away.
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Under current Tennessee law (see generally Tennessee Code Annotated Sec. 39-11-614 for example), a civilian is not allowed to use deadly force to a) protect personal property, b) to stop a trespass on real property, c) to terminate an attempted theft of property, or d) to make a citizen’s arrest.
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Asheville NC fell victim to the defund Police movement. Police were reduced from 'protectors of society' to post-event investigators of felony incidents.
Now inlaws say neighborhoods are posted, "you will be shot" and everybody on night patrol is carrying.
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For the Tennessee city folk, that's how Tennessee law works....for other parts, you just vanished and nobody saw you. You might get found in one of those 200' sink holds in a few decades but....
[IsraelTimes] Herbert Kickl led his Freedom Party to win biggest slice of votes, but the 29% he scored requires cooperating with other parties, almost all of whom say they won’t work with him
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO) must work to clear a path to power after its first ever parliamentary election victory left the anti-establishment outfit needing a partner to form a governing coalition.
The triumph of the Eurosceptic, Russia-friendly FPO on Sunday was another milestone in the recent rise of Europe’s hard right. But the party immediately suffered a stiff reality check.
Facing FPO party leader Herbert Kickl in a television studio after results came in, leaders of the other parties in parliament dismissed his overtures on forming a coalition.
The FPO finished around 2.5 percentage points ahead of Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s conservative People’s Party (OVP) to capture some 29% of the vote — its best result ever — and Kickl accused his rivals of opposing the will of the people.
“Tomorrow there will be a blue Monday and then we will set about turning that 29% into a political reality in this country,” Kickl told supporters on Sunday evening, playing on the fact blue is the color associated with his party.
Kickl, a provocative and polarizing figure allied with Hungarian premier Viktor Orban, offered to negotiate with all other parties in Austria. The FPO’s unexpectedly clear victory risks being hollow if it cannot find a partner.
President Alexander Van der Bellen, a former Greens leader who oversees the formation of governments, urged all parties to hold talks and suggested the process could be drawn out.
Kickl’s win cheered hard-right parties across Europe, where the far-right has made gains in countries including the Netherlands, France and Germany. That growing support could stoke the risk of divisions inside the European Union over key policy areas like the defense of Ukraine against Russia.
Those victories have been no guarantee of power for the far right, however, with other parties eager to deny them.
France’s far-right National Rally won the first round of elections in June only to be frustrated when more moderate parties stood down candidates in the second round, helping the left win the most seats. In the end, the left too lost out when President Emmanuel Macron named a center-right prime minister.
In the Netherlands, nationalist Geert Wilders had to give up his hopes to be prime minister after coming first in an election there, when rivals refused to support a government led by him.
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Kickl says he wants to be a “Volkskanzler,” a term Nazis used for Adolf Hitler, though others have also claimed it.
The 55-year-old Kickl has embraced conspiracy theories, claiming de-worming agent ivermectin is effective against COVID-19, as did former US president Donald Trump. He opposes aid to Ukraine and wants sanctions against Russia withdrawn, arguing they hurt Austria more than Moscow.
Supporters say the FPO’s “Austria First” policies will curb illegal immigration and lift the economy. Critics worry it could herald a more authoritarian state.
An FPO victory meant the future of Austria as a democracy was now at stake, said Irene Rubik, a 69-year-old retired civil servant and Greens voter, voicing her concern that the country ran the risk of “Orbanization,” pointing to Hungary’s Orban.
Founded in the 1950s under the leadership of an ex-Nazi lawmaker, the FPO has worked to moderate its image. Voters were drawn by its pledges to restrict asylum and tackle inflation, though their attachment to Kickl appears limited.
Just 2% of FPO voters said he was the main reason for their vote, the lowest of any party leader, a survey by pollster Foresight showed.
The OVP is the sole party that has signaled openness to forming a coalition with the FPO — but Nehammer has ruled out going into government with Kickl. He repeated that on Sunday, and there was no indication Kickl would step aside.
If Kickl cannot assemble a coalition, it could open the door to some form of tie-up involving the OVP and the center-left Social Democrats, the two parties that have dominated the postwar political history of Austria.
The constant characterization of Kickl as a menace and other parties’ refusal to work with him risked strengthening his pitch as an outsider, said political analyst Thomas Hofer.
“Because it’s clear Herbert Kickl only sees this as a confirmation of his anti-system narrative, his anti-establishment narrative,” Hofer said.
[IsraelTimes] Leader of far-right National Rally denies misappropriating European Parliament funds to pay assistants for political work
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen denied violating any rules as she and her National Rally party and two dozen others went on trial on Monday, accused of embezzling European Parliament funds, in a case that has the potential to derail her political ambitions.
Arriving at the court in Paris, Le Pen said “we have not violated any political and regulatory rules of the European Parliament” and vowed to present “extremely serious and extremely solid arguments” in the trial.
The nine-week trial will be closely watched by Le Pen’s political rivals as she is a strong contender in the race to succeed Emmanuel Macron when the next presidential election takes place in 2027
It comes as a new government dominated by centrists and conservatives just came into office in the wake of June-July legislative elections. Some observers expect the trial could prevent National Rally lawmakers, including Le Pen herself, from fully playing their opposition role in Parliament as they would be busy focusing on the party’s defense.
Since stepping down as party leader three years ago, Le Pen has sought to position herself as a mainstream candidate capable of appealing to a broader electorate. Her efforts have paid off, with the party making significant gains in recent elections at both the European and national levels. But a guilty verdict could seriously undermine her bid to take the Elysee.
The National Rally and 27 of its top officials are accused of having used money destined for EU parliamentary aides to pay staff who instead did political work for the party between 2004 and 2016, in violation of the 27-nation bloc’s regulations. The National Rally was called National Front at the time.
Le Pen, whose party has softened its anti-EU stance in recent years, denies wrongdoing and claims the case is politically driven.
“Parliamentary assistants do not work for the Parliament. They are political assistants to elected officials, political by definition,” she argued in her defense. “You ask me if I can define the tasks I assigned to my assistants; it depends on each person’s skills. Some wrote speeches for me, and some handled logistics and coordination.”
If found guilty, Le Pen and her co-defendants could face up to 10 years in prison and fines of up to 1 million euros ($1.1 million) each. Additional penalties, such as the loss of civil rights or ineligibility to run for office, could also be imposed, a scenario that could hamper, or even destroy, Le Pen’s goal to mount another presidential bid after Macron’s term ends. Le Pen was runner-up to Macron in the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections.
She served as party president from 2011 to 2021 and now heads the group of RN lawmakers at the French National Assembly.
Despite her denial, her party has already paid back 1 million euros to the European Parliament, the Parliament’s lawyer Patrick Maisonneuve said. Of that amount, 330,000 euros were directly linked to Marine Le Pen’s alleged misuse of funds.
A LONGSTANDING CONTROVERSY
The legal proceedings stem from a 2015 alert raised by Martin Schulz, then-president of the European Parliament, to French authorities about possible fraudulent use of European funds by members of the National Front.
Schulz also referred the case to the European Anti-Fraud Office, which launched a separate probe into the matter.
The European Parliament’s suspicions were further heightened when a 2015 organizational chart showed that 16 European lawmakers and 20 parliamentary assistants held official positions within the party — roles unrelated to their supposed duties as EU parliamentary staff.
A subsequent investigation found that some assistants were contractually linked to different MEPs than the ones they were actually working for, suggesting a scheme to divert European funds to pay party employees in France.
Alexandre Varault, a spokesperson for the National Rally who was elected to the European Parliament in June, told The Associated Press that Le Pen will attend the first day of the trial, adding that he hopes for the acquittal of all the defendants.
MISUSE OF PUBLIC FUNDS
Investigating judges concluded that Le Pen, as party leader, orchestrated the allocation of parliamentary assistance budgets and instructed MEPs to hire individuals holding party positions. These individuals were presented as EU parliamentary assistants, but in reality, were allegedly working for the National Rally in various capacities.
The European Parliament’s legal team is seeking 2.7 million euros ($3 million) in compensation for financial and reputational damages. This figure corresponds to the 3.7 million ($4.1 million) euros allegedly defrauded through the scheme, minus the 1 million euros already paid back.
During the 2014 European elections, the National Front won a record 24 MEP seats, finishing first with 24.8 percent of the vote, ahead of the center-right and the Socialists. This surge resulted in a substantial financial windfall for the party, which faced severe financial problems at the time.
An audit of the party’s accounts between 2013 and 2016 revealed that it was running a deficit of 9.1 million euros by the end of 2016. Yet, the party still had a cash balance of 1.7 million euros and had lent 1 million euros to Le Pen’s 2017 presidential campaign, while also holding 87,000 euros in loans to Cotelec, its funding association.
At the time, the party was also indebted to a Russian bank for 9.4 million euros, a loan taken out in 2014 for 6 million euros.
SUSPECTED SYSTEMIC PRACTICE
The investigation uncovered many irregularities involving prominent party members.
Thierry Légier, the long-time bodyguard of Le Pen’s father Jean-Marie, was listed as his parliamentary assistant. However his resume did not reference this role, and he made no mention of it in his 2012 autobiography. Légier admitted during the investigation that he was not interviewed and signed his employment contract without fully understanding his official role.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, who led the National Front from 1972 to 2011, will not appear in court alongside his former colleagues due to health concerns. Now 96, he was deemed unfit to testify by a court in June. He has 11 prior convictions, including for violence against a public official and hate speech.
He has denied wrongdoing during his time as party leader, stating that the “pool” of assistants was common knowledge. “I did not choose which assistants were assigned to me. That was decided by Marine Le Pen and others. I only signed the contracts,” he said.
[IsraelTimes] The head of the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) on Monday denied knowing that its employee Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin was a Hamas commander in Lebanon, and called on states to push back against Israeli attacks on the agency’s reputation.
The head of Hamas’s Lebanon branch, Abu el-Amin, was killed along with family members in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, the Palestinian terror group said on Monday. A statement from the terror group identified him as a “successful teacher and excellent [school] principal.”
The Palestinian Refugees Portal news site reported in early June that Sherif was set to be reinstated, citing a press release from a Damascus-based group representing Palestinian refugees in Syria and Lebanon that said an arrangement had been found to drop the probe and end the teacher strike.
He was suspended from his job at UNRWA in March following allegations concerning his politics, Philippe Lazzarini told reporters in Geneva.
“The specific allegation at the time was that [he was] a part of the local leadership… I never heard the word commander before,” he said. “What’s obvious for you today, was not obvious yesterday.”
UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said el-Amin had been on administrative leave without pay since March — “as soon as UNRWA received information about his possible involvement with Hamas at a senior level” — and had never been reinstated.
“As soon as information was received — in this case, from the Israeli government — action was taken,” Dujarric told reporters. “Every time UNRWA has received information beyond just a name, action has been taken.”
“Anyone who works for the UN and engages in terror, terror-like activity is unacceptable and outrageous and an insult to all UN staff members around the world,” he said. He said with a *wink*
In a statement to the Times of Israel, UNRWA said Sherif was undergoing an investigation following allegations that UNRWA received about his “political activities.”
Lazzarini, who briefed the press after meeting with UN member states earlier on Monday, said he asked them to “push back on all the reputation attack on the agency and the ongoing drafting of bills which could be adopted in Jerusalem.”
He was referring to a move by Israeli parliament to declare the organization a “terrorist body,” which has already received preliminary approval. Such a move would be “absolutely unconscionable,” he added.
UNRWA has been in hot water for the past year over evidence of members’ involvement in terror activities. Israel has alleged that at least 12 of UNRWA’s employees were directly involved in Hamas’s October 7 atrocities, another 30 assisted or facilitated those crimes, and as much as 12 percent of the organization’s staff in Gaza — over 1,000 people — are affiliated with terror organizations.
According to the military, Sherif was responsible for coordinating Hamas’s activity in Lebanon with Hezbollah, as well as Hamas’s “force build-up efforts in Lebanon, in the field of recruiting operatives and procuring weapons.”
Sherif’s suspension in March sparked demonstrations and strikes by teachers demanding his reinstatement.
The Palestinian Refugees Portal news site reported in early June that Sherif was set to be reinstated, citing a press release from a Damascus-based group representing Palestinian refugees in Syria and Lebanon that said an arrangement had been found to drop the probe and end the teacher strike.
A “commitment” was reached “not to prosecute any employee on the basis of his national affiliation,” according to the press release.
Israel has long accused the agency of employing members of Hamas and other terror groups, allowing them to steep future generations in virulent anti-Israel ideology.
While UNRWA provides education, health, and aid to millions of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, Israel has also accused multiple agency staffers of taking part in the Hamas-led attack on October 7, in which some 1,200 people in Israel were killed and 251 taken hostage.
Several donor countries cut aid to the agency after Israel provided evidence that employees took part in Hamas’s October 7 massacre. Many, however, have since reinstated their support, citing the dire need in Gaza.
During its operations in Gaza, the IDF found a Hamas data center located directly beneath UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City, in addition to numerous findings indicating the use of the agency’s assets for terror purposes.
The UN acknowledged in August that nine UNRWA staff may have been involved in the Hamas October attacks and fired them.
UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) was established in 1949 and provides relief to Palestinians considered refugees across the Middle East, including in Lebanon where it says up to 250,000 reside.
The only UN refugee agency established for a specific people, it has come under criticism for bestowing the status not just on those who lost their homes in 1948, but to all their descendants as well — a practice unheard of elsewhere. Israel and its supporters say this encourages an enduring victimhood mentality and narrative in Palestinians and increases their dependence on aid.
[IsraelTimes] Iran working to recruit Israeli citizens online, security agency says, noting recent arrest of Ashkelon man tasked with killing top official; public urged to stay vigilant
The Shin Bet security agency warned in a statement Monday that Iran has increasingly been attempting to carry out assassinations in Israel, and that some were foiled in very advanced stages, with details not yet made public.
“In recent weeks, the Shin Bet has detected a significant rise in Iran’s efforts to advance assassinations against targets in Israel,” the agency said, adding that Iran has been attempting to recruit Israeli civilians to harm senior officials in the country.
The agency noted the recent arrest of Moti Maman, a 73-year-old Israeli man from the coastal city of Ashkelon, who was smuggled into Iran twice and was tasked with helping to assassinate the prime minister, defense minister, or the head of the Shin Bet.
The agency said Iran has also attempted to recruit Israelis online. The Iranian operatives locate Israeli targets on social media, including channels relating to cryptocurrency, finance, and job searching, the Shin Bet said. The Iranian operatives offer individuals a high salary to carry out various tasks, including “placing money or phones in various areas in Israel, distributing flyers, painting graffiti, and even setting fire to cars and physically harming people,” according to the Shin Bet.
The Shin Bet in recent months has announced a series of alleged Iranian plots, in which Iran tried to trick Israelis online into carrying out missions for Tehran, including a scheme uncovered in January in which Israelis were allegedly recruited to gather intelligence on high-profile figures.
It was also announced earlier this month that Hezbollah, the Iranian terror proxy in Lebanon, had sought to assassinate former defense minister and IDF chief of staff Moshe Ya’alon in a bomb attack in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park last September that did not cause any injuries.
The announcement of that Hezbollah plot came shortly before the terror group came under waves of attack, as operatives’ pagers and other communications devices exploded, in an assault widely blamed on Israel. This was followed by weeks of intensive strikes that largely wiped out Hezbollah’s leadership, including chief Hassan Nasrallah in a massive airstrike Friday in a suburb of Beirut.
The Shin Bet said Monday that it “asks the public to pay increased attention and take extra caution in any case where suspicion arises… especially when the sums involved are large and are not suited to the nature of the requested tasks, or… if the requested tasks are unusual.” It asked to report any such suspicious activity to authorities.
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Israeli officials frustrated by leaked IDF ground operation plans against Hezbollah leaked to the media by Biden himself and by Biden Admin officials.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Ivanna Kapustyanskas
[LB] The situation on the front line remains tense. Ukrainian defenders continue to actively oppose the Russian aggressor, causing him losses in manpower and equipment.
A total of 80 combat clashes took place since the beginning of the day, according to the General Staff report.
Border settlements of Sumy, Chernihiv, and Kharkiv regions continue to suffer from artillery shelling from the territory of the Russian Federation. Areas of the settlements of Stukalyvka, Bobylivka, Vidrodenivske, Timofiivka, Novodmytrivka, Malushyne, Svoboda, Obody, Brusky, Velika Pisarivka were affected by the fire of barrel artillery and MLRS. Also, the aggressor carried out airstrikes in the areas of Studenok, Kucherivka, and Budivelne settlements, using seven anti-aircraft missiles.
The Russians are bombing the Kursk region of the Russian Federation: according to available information, nine strikes by twelve guided aerial bombs have been made on its territory.
In addition, in the Kharkiv direction, the Russian occupiers unsuccessfully attacked the defense lines of Ukrainian units near Burguvatka, Starytsia, and Vovchansk seven times, and two skirmishes are still ongoing.
In the Kupyansk direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled five enemy attacks near Synkivka, Novoosynovo, Hlushkivka, and Vyshnevo, two more skirmishes continue near Kruglyakivka.
In the Lymansky direction, the invading army carried out 14 attacks during the day near Grekivka, Makiivka, Nevsky, Novosadovo, Dibrova, Serebryanka, Hryhorivka and in the Serebryansk Forestry. Ten clashes have ended at this time, four more are ongoing. The enemy used aviation in the Serebryansk forestry area, dropping more than 60 unguided air missiles.
The enemy carried out two offensive actions in the Siversk direction in the areas of Verkhnokamianske and Bilogorivka settlements, Ukrainian defenders repelled both enemy attacks. The enemy also carried out an air strike in the Siversk area, using six air bombs.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the invaders, supported by aviation, carried out two assaults on the positions of our troops near Chasovoy Yar. One battle is over, one more is in progress.
In the Toretsk direction, ten enemy attacks took place in the Toretsk, Zalizny, Nelipivka, Shcherbinivka districts. The aggressor launched an air strike on Kostyantynivka, having already used three aerial bombs.
In the Pokrovsky direction, since the beginning of the day, the occupiers have made 13 attempts to dislodge our defenders from their occupied positions in the areas of settlements, Novotoretske, Sukha Balka, Mykolaivka, Selidove, and Mykhailivka. The defense forces restrained the onslaught and repelled seven enemy attacks, six clashes are still ongoing. Enemy losses are being refined.
In the Kurakhiv direction, the occupiers carried out eight unsuccessful attacks near Georgiyivka, Kostyantynivka and Katerynivka, launched an air strike in the Shevchenko area, using four anti-aircraft missiles.
In the Vremivsk direction, units of our troops repelled six Russian assaults near Vugledar, Bogoyavlenka, and Zolotaya Niva. The occupiers carried out airstrikes in the areas of Novodonetske, Tamarivka, Novodarivka and Bogoyavlenka settlements, a total of 21 air bombs were dropped.
In the Orichiv direction, the enemy made one unsuccessful attack on the positions of our defenders. At the same time, the enemy carries out airstrikes and artillery fire on the positions of our troops and populated areas. A total of 10 anti-aircraft missiles and 7 aerial bombs were used in the areas of Mala Tokmachka, Pyatikhatka and Veselyanka settlements.
At the moment, no enemy offensive actions have been recorded in the Gulyaipil and Prydniprovsky directions.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The court sentenced Imam Gadzhimuradov, a native of the village of Novogagatli, to three years in prison, finding him guilty of attempting to travel to Syria to join the militants of the Islamic State*.
According to investigators, in January 2023, 26-year-old Imam Gadzhimuradov, a native of the village of Novogagatli in the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan, checked in at the airport for a flight to the territory controlled by the Islamic State, an international terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court. A border control officer later told the investigator that Gadzhimuradov's appearance and behavior indicated his possible involvement with terrorists.
Gadzhimuradov was detained at the airport. He later told the investigator that at the last moment he refused to board the flight and decided to return home. He specified that he planned to go to Syria.
The Southern District Military Court found Gadzhimuradov guilty of attempting to participate in an illegal armed group and sentenced him to three years in prison. Gadzhimuradov's defense appealed the sentence, but the Supreme Court of Russia upheld it, according to the case file published on the court's website.
There were no comments from representatives of Imam Gadzhimuradov.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Controversial mayor Tiffany Henyard and her boyfriend are reportedly being evicted from their home in Dolton, Illinois.
An eviction notice was filed against Henyard and her boyfriend, Kamal Woods, in Cook County Court.
They are said to owe over $3,300 in rent payments for their home on the 14600 block of South Harvard.
The document also alleges that Henyard, 41, has refused to have the property inspected.
The mayor's attorney told FOX32 that this information is untrue and that the couple has no outstanding rent payments.
This controversy comes after Henyard threw an $85,000 party for her town earlier this month even though she has been cut off from spending by the state for sinking her town into debt.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[Bee] U.S. — A source close to the Harris campaign reveals Tim Walz is "very excited" for this week's Vice Presidential Debate after learning he might get spanked by JD Vance.
...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...
...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...
...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 well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,....jpg "polio")
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
