[Garowe] The war against turbans in Somalia has taken an interesting twist after ISIS forces of Evil reportedly raided al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... bases in the northeastern part of the country, which could further change the dynamics in the ongoing operations across the country.
For the last 20 months, Somalia has invested in the fight against al-Shabaab, one of the terror groups with substantive bases across the nation, with the soldiers on the frontlines managing to secure several strategic towns.
Much focus has been on the fight against al-Shabaab, which has dominated central and southern regions of the country for the last two decades. The al-Shabaab is affiliated with al-Qaeda, a huge terror network in the Middle Eastern region.
According to sources, the ISIS forces of Evil launched an assault on al-Shabaab bases in Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , claiming the lives of more than 50 members, including important commanders, according to a report published in the Al_Naba.
The Al_Naba closely monitors ISIS operations. The attack marks a new chapter in the ongoing conflict between the two terrorist groups in Somalia. The IS forces of Evil are concentrated in northern Somalia, within the Golis mountains of Puntland state.
For several years, the ISIS forces of Evil have been battling to topple al-Shabaab's influence in the country but the group is yet to make any meaningful progress, with al-shabaab pushing them further to the northern regions where they control a few areas including Bari areas of the country..
Interestingly, the fight between the two groups makes it easier for the country to eliminate bully boys, further restoring peace and tranquillity. The conflict has renewed hope for the security troops who have taken advantage to further crush the bully boys.
The government of Somalia has activated tangible measures on various frontlines as they establish a strong ground to control some of the strategic areas. The government estimates that by December 2023, most of these forces of Evil would have been eliminated from the country.
❗️ Tragedy as boat capsizes off #Djibouti coast with 77 migrants on board including children. At least 28 missing. 16 dead. @DjiboutiIOM supporting local authorities with search and rescue effort. pic.twitter.com/s4L7ASNW4o
— IOM - UN Migration News (@UNMigrationNews) April 23, 2024
At least 16 migrants colonists have died and 28 others are missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Djibouti, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday.
"Tragedy as boat capsizes off Djibouti coast with 77 migrants colonists on board including children. At least 28 missing, 16 dead," the IOM said on X, formerly Twitter. The UN migration agency said it is assisting local authorities with search and rescue efforts.
The latest boat accident is one of many similar deadly calamities that have occurred along Djibouti's Red Sea coast area.
Earlier this month, the Æthiopian Embassy in Djibouti said at least 38 Æthiopian migrants colonists have died off the coast of Djibouti.
Data from the embassy show that more than 200,000 Æthiopian migrants colonists make risky land and sea journeys from the coast of Djibouti and the Gulf of Aden each year to reach destinations in the Middle East. It said at least 189 Æthiopian nationals have died off the coast of Djibouti in the past five years.
In most of these incidents, desperate East African migrants colonists attempted to cross the dangerous route, hoping to reach the Middle East via war-torn 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... . They mainly sought to reach Yemen's northern neighbor, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... .
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] In a significant development, Musa Hilal, a prominent tribal leader in North Darfur, has declared his support for 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 in its ongoing conflict with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Hilal, head of the Revolutionary Awakening Council and the chief of the Mahamid branch of the Rizeigat tribe (which includes many RSF leaders), becomes the first senior figure from the tribe to back the army since the fighting began in April 2023.
Previously, Hilal had been a vocal critic of the RSF, accusing its troops of widespread human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
abuses against civilians in Darfur. He also condemned their use of alleged foreign mercenaries.
Hilal emphasized his commitment to the Sudanese state and its institutions when speaking to a crowd in Um Sunt, North Darfur. "We stand with the armed forces," he declared. The defence of our homeland requires full force. Many Darfuri tribes have urged me to prioritize state stability and peace."
Hilal strongly refuted the RSF’s claims that their actions aim to dismantle Sudan as established in 1956. He argued they misunderstood the significance of the 1956 state, which embodies the sacrifices of Sudanese patriots who fought for independence.
Hilal further vowed to combat the violence, rape, and looting perpetrated by RSF members in North Darfur. He called for unity and a stronger social fabric within the region.
Weeks after the outbreak of the war, Hilal travelled from Khartoum to Darfur. He toured several areas in North Darfur and urged an end to the fighting.
In November 2017, the RSF arrested Hilal and three of his sons. They faced a military court following a case filed by the paramilitary group. The charges against Hilal included undermining the constitution, inciting war against the state, and provoking tribal conflict. He was released in March 2021, two years after the fall of the Bashir regime.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have launched a series of arrests targeting residents of Tuti Island, located in the center of Khartoum on the Nile River, multiple sources told 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... Tribune on Monday.
Local area community leaders have been detained for about two weeks now.
Residents interviewed by Sudan Tribune claimed in areas under RSF control, the paramilitary group is engaged in a campaign of intimidation and violence, including killings, property looting, and restrictions on food and medicine supplies.
These tactics are allegedly aimed at forcing residents to leave their homes.
"The RSF initially summoned island leaders, but the situation escalated into arrests," a statement from Tuti citizens received by Sudan Tribune on Sunday reads.
"Other leaders were taken from their homes," it added.
These developments follow a reported rape incident on Eid al-Fitr involving a young woman and an RSF member. A subsequent community meeting to condemn the act reportedly angered the RSF, who have maintained control of the area since the conflict began and imposed a siege that restricts movement.
In the one past year, however, residents have reportedly attempted to negotiate with the RSF to allow passage for medical emergencies and essential supplies.
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How clever of them… in an utterly derivative way. But of course they were not chosen for their brains.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A video being widely shared on social media platforms shows activists in the British city of Bournemouth wearing shrouds and lying on the ground as if they are dead. The "die-in" protest is in solidarity with Paleostinians in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... The video depicts dozens of activists lying on the ground in the city square wearing white shrouds, aiming to highlight the deaths of tens of thousands of Paleostinians in Gaza. I ain't impressed. They're still breaathing.
In February, around 11,500 pieces of clothing were placed on Bournemouth beach to mourn Paleostinian children, in another demonstration of solidarity with Paleostinians.
The Paleostinian Ministry of Health announced on Monday, that the corpse count in Gaza has risen to 34,151 since the start of the Israeli war on the enclave on October 7.
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[AFRICANEWS] At hospitals and clinics across Port-au-Prince, life-saving medication and equipment is dwindling or altogether absent as brutal gangs tighten their grip on the capital and beyond. Do not disrupt the handiwork of Darwin.
The gangs have blocked roads, forced the closure of the main international airport in early March and paralyzed operations at the country’s largest seaport, where containers filled with key supplies remain stuck.
Haiti’s health system has long been fragile, but it’s now nearing total collapse.
The violence has forced several medical institutions and dialysis centers to temporarily close, including Haiti’s largest public hospital.
One of the few institutions still operating is Peace University Hospital, located south of the shuttered airport. From Feb. 29 to April 15, the hospital treated some 200 patients with gunshot wounds, and its beds remain full.
Even if a hospital is operating, sometimes the medical staff is absent because gang violence erupts daily in Port-au-Prince, forcing doctors and nurses to stay at home or turn around if they encounter blocked roads manned by heavily gunnies.
The spiraling chaos has left a growing number of patients with cancer, HIV/AIDS and other serious illnesses with little to no recourse, with gangs also looting and setting fire to pharmacies in the capital’s downtown area.
At the Doctors Without Borders emergency hospital in Cite Soleil, doctors have been forced to cut its daily consultations from 150 to 50 despite the pressing need for medical care.
MSF itself has run out of many medications used to treat diabetes and high blood pressure, and asthma inhalers that help prevent deadly attacks are nowhere to be found in the capital.
Everyone is allowed to enter the MSF compound, but medical staff do a triage to determine which 50 people will be seen.
A baby suffering of malnutrition will not be treated at the hospital that is prioritizing trauma and gun shot wounds.
On Friday morning, 51-year-old Jean Marc Baptiste shuffled into the emergency room with a thick and bloody bandage on his right hand.
He said police in an armored vehicle shot him the previous day, adding that he didn’t have anything in his hand at the time except for a piece of wood he was collecting in an area controlled by gangs to sell as kindle.
[FoxNews] Four Iranian nationals were indicted Tuesday for allegedly being part of a multi-year "malicious cyber ops" campaign targeting the U.S. State and Treasury departments, defense contractors and two companies in New York.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed the indictment in a Manhattan federal court, charging Hossein Harooni, Reza Kazemifar, Komeil Baradaran Salmani, and Alireza Shafie Nasab with computer fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and other charges.
Along with the unsealing of the indictment against the four conspirators, the U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program (RFJ) announced it was offering up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of the group and the defendants, the DOJ said.
The Treasury Department also announced sanctions against the four conspirators and other cyber actors.
The indictment alleges that between at least 2016 through April 2021, Harooni, Kazemifar, Salmani, Nasab and others were part of a hacking organization accused of participating in a multi-year, coordinated campaign to conduct computer intrusions.
The hackers targeted over a dozen U.S. companies as well as the U.S. Treasury and U.S. State Department.
Kazemifar, Salmani and Nasab worked for Mahak Rayan Afraz, a company based in Iran that offered cybersecurity services, but the DOJ alleges the company was just a front for their operation.
Those targeted in the private sector were cleared by defense contractors with security clearance granted by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), allowing them to access, receive and store classified information to conduct activities in support of DoD programs.
The alleged hackers also targeted an accounting firm and a hospitality company, both located in New York.
While conducting the hacking campaigns, the conspirators tricked email recipients into clicking on links that turned out to be malicious and infected the computers with malware.
In one campaign, the group targeted one victim, which resulted in over 200,000 employee accounts becoming compromised.
The hackers conducted another campaign in which they targeted about 2,000 employee accounts, the DOJ said.
As the group continued with their attacks, the hackers were able to access an administrator's email account belonging to a defense contractor. The access allowed the conspirators to establish unauthorized accounts that were used to send hacking campaigns to employees of another defense contractor and a consulting firm.
The indictment noted that Kazemifar was responsible for testing the tools used in the campaigns. He also allegedly worked for the Iranian Organization for Electronic Warfare and Cyber Defense (EWCD), which is part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The U.S. has designated the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization.
Harooni, the indictment alleged, procured, administered and managed the group’s infrastructure – things like computer servers and software used to conduct the hacking operations.
He also allegedly used a real person’s passport to conceal his role in the campaign.
Salmani, like Kazemifar, tested the tools used to execute hacking campaigns, including that used against a hospitality company.
Nasab is accused of creating the infrastructure used in social engineering campaigns in which women were used to gain confidence from victims before deploying malware on their computers and devices.
All four conspirators were charged with conspiracy to commit computer fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud. They face up to five years in prison for computer fraud conspiracy and up to 20 years in prison for each count of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
The DOJ said Harooni was also charged with knowingly damaging a protected computer, which has a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison if found guilty. The DOJ charged Harooni, Salmani and Nasab with aggravated identity theft, as well.
The US Department of Treasury on Tuesday slapped sanctions on two Iranian companies and four individuals for their alleged involvement in "malicious" cyber activity on behalf of Iran’s revolutionary guards.
"Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two companies and four individuals involved in malicious cyber activity on behalf of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC)," read a statement from the Department.
"These actors targeted more than a dozen U.S. companies and government entities through cyber operations, including spear phishing and malware attacks. In conjunction with today’s action, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is unsealing an indictment against the four individuals for their roles in cyber activity targeting U.S. entities," it added.
Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E. Nelson was cited in the statement as saying that "Iranian malicious cyber actors continue to target U.S. companies and government entities in a coordinated, multi-pronged campaign intended to destabilize our critical infrastructure and cause harm to our citizens."
An imprisoned trans So Cal Antifa member boasted about other attacks in newly uncovered social media accounts. Erich Yach has a long criminal history of violence but his partner argued that Yach should be imprisoned with women. https://t.co/ibH0LJe9jj
Not new information, but interesting because it’s a Pakistani news site that’s noticing these events in universities across America.
[GEO.TV] Police arrested dozens of people at pro-Paleostinian demonstrations at Yale University in Connecticut and New York University in Manhattan on Monday, as the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... continued to reverberate through US university campuses.
The police crackdowns came after Columbia University canceled in-person classes on Monday in response to protesters setting up tent encampments at its New York City campus last week.
Demonstrators blocked traffic around Yale's campus in New Haven, Connecticut, demanding the school divest from military weapons manufacturers. Police arrested more than 45 protesters, according to the student-run Yale Daily News.
In New York, officers moved on the NYU crowd shortly after nightfall. Video on social media showed police taking down tents in the protesters' encampment. As demonstrators tussled with officers and chanted, "We will not stop, we will not rest. Disclose. Divest."
[GEO.TV] Security forces killed three forces of Evil and detained another during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Pishin District of 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...
, the military’s media wing said on Tuesday.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said during the conduct of IBO on the night of April 22-23 three forces of Evil "were sent to hell" after intense fire exchange.
Another terrorist was apprehended in injured condition and has been identified as an Afghan national, as per the ISPR.
The statement further said that a huge cache of arms, ammunition and explosives was also recovered during the operation.
"Security forces of Pakistain, in step with the nation, remain determined to thwart attempts of sabotaging peace, stability and progress of Balochistan," it added.
A day earlier, at least 11 bad boyz were potted in two separate operations in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
and North Wazoo, the ISPR had said in a statement.
According to the communique, the military’s media wing said the security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in DI Khan sanctuaries on the reported presence of terrorists.
At least 92% of all fatalities and 86% of attacks, including those related to terrorism and security forces operations, were recorded in the KP and Balochistan provinces in the first quarter of 2024.
These key findings were revealed in the Q1 2024 Security Report issued by the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), detailing that the country witnessed at least 432 violence-linked fatalities and 370 injuries among civilians, security personnel and outlaws resulting from as many as 245 incidents of terror attacks and counter-terror operations.
Among the 432 fatalities, 281 included that of civilians and security forces personnel.
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[GEO.TV] The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Tuesday claimed to have killed at least eight bandidosturbans who were involved in attacks on Customs officials in Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
One of the most-wanted terrorists, Jahanzaib, was also among those killed in the operation conducted on Monday in the KP district, the CTD said in a statement.
The dead terrorists, according to the statement, were also involved in extortion and attacks on security forces as well as murder.
The bandidosturbans were present in the district with plans to cause sabotage, it added.
"The escape routes of the bandidosturbans were blocked," the CTD said, adding that there is a fear of the presence of controllers of bandidosturbans in the local population.
"Strict action is also being taken against the controllers," the agency maintained.
Last weekend, two officials of Customs were bumped off in an attack near York Toll Plaza in DI Khan, while four others sustained injuries in the gun attack.
This attack came just days after a previous one on April 18, during which six people, including five customs officials, were killed in a firing incident on the Sago Road in Daraban tehsil of the district.
According to the statistics issued by the Department of Interior and Tribal Affairs KP, the areas most affected by terrorism include Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
, Khyber, Bajaur, Tank, Dera Ismail Khan, North Wazoo and South Waziristan.
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[GEO.TV] Israel bombarded northern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... overnight in some of the heaviest shelling in weeks, causing panic amongst residents and flattening neighbourhoods in an area from which the Israeli army had previously down its troops, residents said on Tuesday.
Army tanks made a new incursion east of Beit Hanoun on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, though they did not penetrate far into the city, residents and Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
media said. Gunfire reached some schools where displaced residents were sheltering.
Shelling was intense east of Beit Hanoun and Jabalia and continued on Tuesday morning in areas such as Zeitoun, one of Gaza City's oldest suburbs, with residents reporting at least 10 strikes in a matter of seconds along the main road.
Just west of Beit Hanoun in Beit Lahiya, medics and Hamas media said strikes had hit a mosque and a crowd gathering on the coastal road to collect aid dropped from the air. Rooters could not immediately confirm those targets.
"It was one of those nights of horror that we had lived in at the start of the war. The bombing from tanks and planes didn't stop," said Um Mohammad, 53, a mother-of-six living 700 metres from Zeitoun.
IDF Arabic spokesman warns civilians to evacuate from fighting zones in Strip’s north as army launches missions in Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun
The Israel Defense Forces intensified its operations against Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... Death Eaters in the central and northern Gazoo Strip on Tuesday, as the war reached its 200th day.
Israeli strikes intensified in what residents said was some of the heaviest shelling in weeks, particularly hitting the north from where the Israeli army had previously drawn down its troops.
Strikes by air and shelling from tanks on the ground were also reported in central and southern areas, in what residents said were almost non-stop bombardments.
The IDF said Tuesday that it had targeted Hamas rocket-launching positions in the southern Gaza Strip overnight. The military said the strike was carried out following new intelligence information that was received over the past few days, allowing the rocket launchers to be destroyed before they were used.
Separately, an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... was carried out against several terror operatives hiding near a civilian shelter in central Gaza’s Bureij, the military said.
Dozens more airstrikes were carried out across Gaza over the past day, targeting buildings used by terror groups, observation posts, rocket launch sites, and other infrastructure and operatives, according to the army.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?...
in a post on social media platform X, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, urged residents of four zones in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya to move to shelter in two designated areas near the town.
"You are in a dangerous combat zone," Adraee warned, adding that the IDF would operate against "terror infrastructure" and operatives in the area.
The operation in Beit Lahiya comes following recent rocket attacks from the area on Israeli border communities. Paleostinians said an air strike hit a mosque, killing a boy and injuring several others, while a medic was killed in shelling near the town stadium.
The IDF also said it launched a new pinpoint operation in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun just before Passover began Monday.
The raid was carried out by forces operating under the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade.
Amid the operation, Sgt. First Class (res.) Salm Alkreshat, a tracker in the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade, was killed. Alkreshat, 43, was from the Bedouin community of Abu Rabia. His death brings the toll of slain troops in the IDF’s ground offensive against Hamas to 261.
On Tuesday morning, four rockets were fired from northern Gaza at the southern city of Sderot, with the IDF reporting that all the projectiles were downed by the Iron Dome air defense system. The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group grabbed credit for the rocket attack on Sderot.
Several hours later, two more rockets were fired at the border community of Zikim. One of the rockets was intercepted, while the second failed to cross the border, the military said.
No injuries or damage were caused in the attacks.
The renewed shelling and bombing of northern Gaza comes almost four months after the Israeli army announced it was drawing down its troops there, saying it had dismantled Hamas’s "military framework" in the area.
Also on Tuesday, the Israeli army said troops in the Nahal Brigade launched a new pinpoint operation against Hamas in the central Gaza Strip corridor, which the military said was continuing during the Passover holiday.
The IDF said the "surprise operation" that began Sunday night was aimed at "deepening the achievements" in the Netzarim corridor. The corridor, built around a road south of Gaza City, enables the IDF to carry out raids in northern and central Gaza while allowing Israel to control access to the north for Paleostinians seeking to return after fleeing south.
"The forces are carrying out targeted raids and are thwarting terror in the area," the IDF said in a statement.
Nahal troops spotted several button men amid the raid, and called in airstrikes by fighter jets against them and the buildings they were spotted operating at, according to the IDF. It added that secondary explosions seen after the strikes indicated that the buildings were used to store munitions.
The fighting in the center and northern parts of the Strip continued amid Israel’s planned offensive in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah. A recent report by The Wall Street Journal said the IDF had begun readying to evacuate Paleostinian civilians from Rafah, where more than a million are sheltering.
Israel has said Rafah, where four of Hamas’s six intact battalions are deployed, remains one of the terror group’s last major strongholds in the Strip after the IDF operated across the north and in parts of the center and south of the enclave. It also believes that many of the remaining 129 hostages kidnapped on October 7 are being held in Rafah.
On Tuesday, a front man for the military wing of Hamas, Hudhaifa Kahlout — known by the nom de guerre Abu Obeida — called for an escalation across all fronts in a televised statement marking the 200 days of the war.
The war erupted when 3,000 Death Eaters poured across the border with Israel on October 7 in an unprecedented Hamas-led attack that resulted in the deaths of 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 253.
The ensuing Israeli offensive has killed over 33,000 people, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry. This figure cannot be independently verified and includes over 13,000 terror operatives Israel says it has killed since the beginning of the war.
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[GEO.TV] 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... 's Hezbollah group said on Tuesday it had launched a drone attack against Israeli military bases north of the city of Acre, in its deepest strike into Israeli territory since the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
war began.
The Israeli military said it had no knowledge of any of its facilities being hit by Hezbollah, but had said earlier on Tuesday that it intercepted two "aerial targets" off Israel's northern coast.
Hezbollah said it acted in retaliation for an earlier Israeli attack killing one of its fighters. The group published what appeared to be a satellite photo, with the location of the strike symbolised by a flash with a red circle around it that sat halfway between Acre and Nahariyya to the north.
Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!...
s killed two Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon, the military said earlier on Tuesday.
Hezbollah later confirmed the death of one of its fighters, Hussein Azkoul, but provided no further details.
A separate Israeli strike overnight Monday to Tuesday killed a fighter in Hezbollah's elite unit, Radwan Forces, the military said, though Hezbollah has not confirmed his death.
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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.
![]("Pix/shabab1.jpeg" "\"l-Shabaab\"")
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...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...
[AFRICANEWS] At hospitals and clinics across 
Wazoo, the ISPR had said in a statement.
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...always the voice of sweet reason...
...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...
