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Israel, Hamas agree to temporary cease-fire, hostage release deal including freeing 3 Americans
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Good Morning


Argentina's new president Javier
Milei has vowed to 'get the Falklands back'
11/22/2023

junePriesser_
Iraq
In First, US Deployed AC-130 Gunship
To Attack Pro-Iran Militants In Iraq
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF says it has completed encirclement
of Gaza%u2019s Jabaliya amid battles with gunmen
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli drone strike kills 4 Hamas terrorists in Lebanon
Europe
Suspected Islamist woman arrested
for planting explosive device on Warsaw street
Europe
German police raid homes of 17 accused
of antisemitic hate speech on social media
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Jordan says Israel has ordered the
evacuation of a Jordanian field hospital in Gaza
Antisemitic attacker shouts 'Free
Palestine' as family slams 'racist' judge

Posted by: Fred || 11/22/2023 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/22/2023 9:41 Comments || Top||

#2  I sort of wonder whether June’s shoes are ancho into the turf.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/22/2023 10:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Starting location for 18 to 21 years of financial drain.
Posted by: badanov || 11/22/2023 10:17 Comments || Top||

#4  ^^^
Yep. What about the golf addiction?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/22/2023 13:01 Comments || Top||

#5  huh. and not one ham comment...
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/22/2023 14:26 Comments || Top||

#6 
This is Thanksgiving.
Ham is for Christmas.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/22/2023 17:10 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Burkina: fifteen civilians killed in ''simultaneous attacks'' this weekend
[AFRICANEWS] Fifteen civilians, including three army auxiliaries, were killed in "simultaneous attacks" by suspected jihadists on Saturday in eastern Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed...
, local and security sources told AFP on Tuesday.These "simultaneous and synchronised attacks" took place in two neighbourhoods of Diapaga, the capital of Tapoa province in the east of the country, and left fifteen people dead, a local resident told AFP, an attack and corpse count confirmed by a representative of the province's civil society.

"Fifteen people, including three Volunteers for the Defence of the Homeland (VDP, civilian auxiliaries to the army) and twelve civilians, were killed by the murderous bullets of lawless men" who "carried out this attack", said Kondia Pierre Yonli, a front man for civil society organizations, in a written note.

"The population, in total disarray, took them to their final resting place on Sunday 19 November at the Diapaga municipal cemetery", he added.

"In tribute to these men who fell to their deaths (...) a day of 'ville morte' will be observed throughout the Diapaga municipality on Tuesday", he said, adding that markets, schools "and all public services will remain closed".

Confirming the attack, a security source said that "the response of the defence forces repelled the attackers and neutralised several dozen of them". "An air-land operation is underway in the eastern region and has already neutralised more than fifty hard boyz and dismantled several of their bases".

Since 2015, Burkina Faso has been caught up in a spiral of violence perpetrated by jihadist groups affiliated to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
and al-Qaeda, which were already striking neighbouring Mali and Niger.

To date, more than 17,000 civilians and soldiers have been killed over the past eight years, including more than 6,000 since the beginning of 2023, according to the NGO Acled, which tracks the victims of conflicts around the world.

The violence has also led to the internal displacement of more than two million people, according to the National Council for Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation (Conasur).



Posted by: Fred || 11/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria: clashes between jihadists, more than 60 deaths feared
[AFRICANEWS] Fierce fighting this weekend pitted Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
fighters against another jihadist group, affiliated with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, in the Lake Chad region, anti-jihadist Death Eaters said on Monday, adding that "more than 60 people are feared dead".

The fighting took place on Friday and Saturday when Islamic State in West Africa (ISWAP) fighters ambushed a fleet of Boko Haram boats on the islet of Kaduna Ruwa in Lake Chad, which straddles Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
and Chad, the sources said.

"The fighting began at around 4pm (1500 GMT) and continued until Saturday morning. Nine Boko Haram boats and all the fighters on them were sunk," Ibrahim Liman, a leader of an anti-jihadist militia in the region, told AFP.

In addition to the fighters, several dozen hostages kidnapped two weeks earlier were present on these boats. "At least 60 people died, at the very least, if you count the fighters and their dozens of hostages", said Mr Liman.

"We don't have a definitive assessment of the fighting, but there will certainly be more than 60 dead. Nine boats sank, and (...) we know that the rebels charge them a lot when they are on operations", added another anti-jihadist militia leader, Kabiru Habu.

However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
no bodies have yet been found, according to local sources, and no confirmation of this corpse count was available from the local authorities on Monday.

- KIDNAPPINGS -
Two weeks earlier, Boko Haram fighters had left their camp in the Diffa region of Niger for the island of Doron Baga on the Nigerian shore of Lake Chad, terrorising the local population by looting and kidnapping, Sallau Arzika, a fisherman from the village of Baga, told AFP.

They kidnapped several dozen people, including fishermen and at least eight Fulani
... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...
women, according to Mr Arzika and Labo Sani, also a fisherman.

The jihadists beheaded one of the fishermen and gave his head to other fishermen to take to a military contingent in Cameroon to threaten them with an attack, according to these sources.

They were intercepted by ISWAP troops, who then hunted down their rivals and attacked the Boko Haram fighters and their hostages.

In February and March, the two factions of Boko Haram and ISWAP clashed for control of the islands in Lake Chad.

According to fishermen and local anti-jihadist militiamen, both factions lost many men in the fighting. The jihadist conflict has killed more than 40,000 people in north-east Nigeria and displaced more than 2 million since 2009.

Posted by: Fred || 11/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [20 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)

#1  All victims are civilian women & children?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/22/2023 1:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Grom, don't forget the fluffy bunnies.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/22/2023 15:55 Comments || Top||

#3  "no bodies were found"
Culling and harvesting.
Posted by: Thor Thineling6045 || 11/22/2023 17:19 Comments || Top||


Europe
Suspected Islamist woman arrested for planting explosive device on Warsaw street
[IsraelTimes] 38-year-old Polish suspect holds Islamist bad boy sympathies and was found to have photo of the late Osama bin Laden
...... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones......
in her home


Polish authorities say that they have arrested and pressed charges against a 38-year-old Polish woman with Islamic bad boy sympathies who planted an bomb on a street in central Warsaw earlier this month. There were no injuries.

Police said in a statement published on Monday that the woman placed the device in Warsaw on the night of November 10-11 and then took a train back to her home in western Poland.

Nobody was hurt, but the device had the potential to injure many people, police said.

"The makeshift bomb filled with gas containers and nails could have caused a serious threat to the health and lives of many people," the statement said. It added that she was charged with "causing danger and bringing danger to the life and health of many people, as well as preparation for causing such danger."

Police used CCTV footage to track her movements. After planting the device in Warsaw, she headed to the central train station in the capital and then traveled to the western Polish city of Wroclaw, and was arrested at her home in the nearby town of Strzelin.

Police described the suspect as a Polish woman interested in Middle Eastern affairs, but wouldn’t give any more details about her.

They released a video showing police fingerprinting and handcuffing her and also showed some of the objects they said they found in her home. Among them was an image of former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

"Police officers secured items and gadgets related to Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, as well as items that could have been used to construct another bomb," police said.

Posted by: trailing wife || 11/22/2023 2023-11-22 01:01 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [22 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  In Poland from all places?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/22/2023 1:49 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Oh, she's going to be remarkably unhappy.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/22/2023 6:02 Comments || Top||

#3  She cannot hope for a fair trial in Poland. She really should be tried in Hungary.

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/22/2023 6:05 Comments || Top||


German police raid homes of 17 accused of antisemitic hate speech on social media
[IsraelTimes] Suspects from Bavaria said to range in age from 18 to 62; one reportedly posted to WhatsApp school class chat ’Gas the Jews’, another called for extermination of Jewish people

German authorities on Tuesday raided the homes of 17 people in the state of Bavaria accused of spreading antisemitic hate speech and threats targeting Jews online.

According to the Bavarian criminal police, the suspects were 15 men and two women, aged between 18 and 62, the German news agency dpa reported. Police questioned the suspects and confiscated evidence from their homes, including cell phones and laptops, the agency said.

The suspects were said to have celebrated the attacks by Paleostinian terror group Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
on Israel on October 7 that killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians. They were also accused of spreading hate speech against Jewish people on social media, using symbols of banned terrorist organizations, dpa reported.

The police operation focused on Bavaria’s capital city of Munich where nine of the accused resided. Further searches were carried out in the Bavarian towns of Fuessen and Kaufbeuren as well as in the counties of Passau, Fuerstenfeldbruck, Berchtesgadener Land, Coburg, Aschaffenburg and Hassberge.

One suspect allegedly sent a sticker in a WhatsApp school class chat showing a clown with the words "Gas the Jews." Another person, a German-Ottoman Turkish dual citizen, allegedly posted on his account that "the Jewish sons" deserved nothing more than to be "exterminated," dpa reported.

Another suspect, a Ottoman Turkish citizen, is accused of posting a picture of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like...
shortly after the October 7 attacks with the caption "I could kill all the Jews, but I left some alive to show you why I killed them." Next to it, he posted a Paleostinian flag, the caption "Free Paleostine" and an emoji with a victory sign.

"Unfortunately, antisemitism has an impact on the daily life of many Jews in Germany," Michael Weinzierl, the Bavarian police commissioner against hate crime told dpa, "the terrorist attack by Hamas against Israel also has an impact on their lives in Germany."

Weinzierl said it was important to show Jews and Israelis living in the state "that we stand behind them here in Bavaria, that we protect them here and also protect them from hostility."

Last month, Germany’s chancellor and president strongly denounced a rise in antisemitism in the country in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.

Germany has strict rules against hate speech. Raids in connection with the publication of banned symbols such as swastikas and other Nazi symbols are not uncommon. The denial of the Holocaust, in which the Nazis and their henchmen murdered 6 million European Jews, is also banned.

Antisemitism has spiked in cities across the world following the Hamas attack and subsequent conflict.

War erupted on October 7, when Hamas-led murderous Moslems from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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...
breached the border and then rampage murderously through southern Israeli communities, killing over 1,200 people and abducting some 240. The attack came under cover of a barrage of thousands of rockets fired at Israel. Hamas and other terror groups have continued to launch rockets at Israel, displacing over 200,000 people.

According to Gaza’s Hamas-run health authorities, more than 13,000 Paleostinians have been killed, two-thirds of them women and minors. Those figures cannot be independently verified, and Hamas has been accused of inflating them and of designating button men in their late teens as children. It is not known how many among its total are combatants, and how many among the dead were victims of misfired rockets aimed at Israel.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/22/2023 2023-11-22 01:01 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [26 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Machete Armed Migrant Mob Attacks Teenagers at Village Hall Dance in France, ONE DEAD, SEVERAL STABBED
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 11/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [17 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


#2  ^'We are here to stab white people.

Not to protest the "Genocide of Gaza" by the Zionist Entity?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/22/2023 1:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Need a couple of American tourists on hand.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 11/22/2023 8:28 Comments || Top||


#5  I wouldn't try that in Paris, Texas.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/22/2023 8:51 Comments || Top||

#6  why doesn't france, and the US, declare muslims persona-non-Grata and give them a free boat ride to the Saharan country of their choice. that's assuming the country of their choice wants them.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 11/22/2023 13:16 Comments || Top||

#7  that's assuming the country of their choice wants them.
Posted by: Thor Thineling6045 || 11/22/2023 13:33 Comments || Top||

#8  "Just a mischievous immigrant prank!"
"So, a motive unknown?" asked a Yank.
"Though some locals were poked,
This was surely provoked
By... a screening of films by Les Blank."
Posted by: Shinert Shemble5880 || 11/22/2023 17:12 Comments || Top||


Great White North
BREAKING: Explosion Reported at U.S.-Canada Rainbow Bridge Border Crossing
[PJMedia] See also here.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/22/2023 14:12 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [21 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In terror section as it looks like an IED until we get more info
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/22/2023 14:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Update 2:01 p.m.: Fox News correspondent Alexis McAdams reports that "High level police sources tell me this is an attempted terrorist attack. Sources say the car was full of explosives. Both men inside dead."

Expect the event to be hushed up.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/22/2023 14:22 Comments || Top||

#3  We had it coming with our crusader/colonizer bridges.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/22/2023 14:40 Comments || Top||



#6  is that the ghey rainbow?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/22/2023 15:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Im betting bridge wasn't the target. Must have been an oops.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 11/22/2023 15:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Have they figured out yet whether the Alaska landslide was Trump's fault or caused by and AR-15?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/22/2023 15:26 Comments || Top||

#9  Going to NYC for the Thanksgiving parade?
Wonder if a cell phone detector might have triggered the blast.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/22/2023 15:30 Comments || Top||

#10  Yesterday's warnin (NY Govnah Kathy Hochul)....

Escalating violence in Gaza increasing chatter of possible terror attack in New York, intelligence report says
Posted by: Enver Dingle4916 || 11/22/2023 15:51 Comments || Top||

#11  I hope the solar panels were not damaged.
Posted by: Airandee || 11/22/2023 15:59 Comments || Top||

#12  According to this questionable site, an Iranian passport was found at the scene.
Posted by: AuburnTom || 11/22/2023 16:13 Comments || Top||

#13  ^Lebanese?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/22/2023 16:30 Comments || Top||

#14  #12 - nice catch, but, like you said, suspect. Why would their "Iranian" puppeteers allow a passport?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/22/2023 17:43 Comments || Top||

#15  FoxNews Reporter Chip Diller: "No explosives, no terrorism, nothing to see here. Go about your business"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/22/2023 18:04 Comments || Top||

#16  Reporters, bless their black little hearts!
A more curious person might wonder where all the flaming wreckage came from, or why the perps were barreling the wrong way through the checkpoint.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/22/2023 19:09 Comments || Top||

#17  Gasoline engine...they say the driver did a U-turn...
Posted by: crazyhorse || 11/22/2023 23:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Two dead in 'attempted terror attack' on Rainbow Bridge: Car entering the US from Canada EXPLODES at iconic Niagara Falls crossing, killing two occupants inside
See also here.
[DM] An attempted terror attack on Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls today saw a car explode, causing a massive explosion at a toll checkpoint that killed the vehicle's two occupants.
Any bets that one or both occupants were named Moh?
Fox News cites law enforcement sources who say the intention was a larger attack to kill more and the FBI Terrorism Task Force
Such as it is...
is investigating but officials are yet to confirm the motive.

It remains unclear if anyone aside from those in the car were injured.

The City of Niagara Falls says the explosion came from a car that was trying to enter the US from Canada. It comes just two days after an intelligence report signaled increased risk of a terror attack in New York City.

After the explosion, motorists who'd driven into America were told to leave their vehicles and walk back into Canada while the cars were checked for bombs.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/22/2023 14:09 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tesla?
Posted by: Enver Dingle4916 || 11/22/2023 15:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Amish Liberation Organized for sure.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 11/22/2023 16:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Vehicle was supposedly spotted earlier on the US side...
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/22/2023 16:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Rainbow Bridge?
Fluid gender suicide pact.
Posted by: Thor Thineling6045 || 11/22/2023 17:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Media already careening towards "reckless driver" explanation.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/22/2023 17:38 Comments || Top||

#6  "It was a vintage pinto and got rear-ended!"

Posted by: Frank G || 11/22/2023 17:50 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Three terrorists gunned down in separate KP IBOs
[GEO.TV] Three faceless myrmidons were bumped off in two separate intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
and South Wazoo districts, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the military's media wing said an IBO was conducted in the general area of Kulachi in the Dera Ismail Khan district following which two bad boyz were potted in an intense exchange of fire on November 20, 2023.

One more terrorist was executed during an operation in South Waziristan's Kot Azam general area, the ISPR stated.

"Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from all three killed terrorists, who remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities against security forces as well as innocent civilians," the ISPR stated.

Meanwhile,
...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin...
a 26-year-old soldier — Sepoy Shahzeb, belonging to Rawalpindi — embraced martyrdom after an Improvised Explosive Device went kaboom! in the general area of Gharyoum, North Waziristan district.

"Sanitisation operations are being carried out to eliminate any faceless myrmidons present in the area as the security forces of Pakistain are determined to wipe out the menace of terrorism and such sacrifices of our brave soldiers further strengthen our resolve," the statement added.

Pakistain has faced a surge in terrorism in recent months, with the Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Pakistain (TTP) and other krazed killer outfits intensifying their actions against security forces.

In response, the state has also launched operations to curb terrorism.

Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), in a report released in October, noted that the security forces lost at least 386 personnel in the first nine months of 2023, marking an eight-year high.

Posted by: Fred || 11/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [17 views] Top|| File under: Pak Taliban (TTP)


Iraq
In First, US Deployed AC-130 Gunship To Attack Pro-Iran Militants In Iraq
[ZH] Get some!
Posted by: Frank G || 11/22/2023 07:03 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [15 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  Go Spooky!!!
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/22/2023 9:00 Comments || Top||

#2  I love these things.
Let's see a show of hands...
Posted by: Thor Thineling6045 || 11/22/2023 13:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Was given a walk-thru of a AC-130 at Pope AFB back in 1990. It looked like a serious problem solver.
My old school NCO father from Nam days, said he wished they had one then. But also added Puff did a great job even w/o the 105m at Firebase Eagle in 68. Just left a lot roofs that leaked badly.☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/22/2023 14:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Here's a hand for you TT. Unfortunately the Bidens of this world won't use them to good effect.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/22/2023 16:11 Comments || Top||


Iran-backed terrorists killed in Iraq strike after attack on US forces: Pentagon
[NYPOST] US troops killed several Iran-supported terrorists in a retaliatory airstrike Tuesday after they targeted American forces in Iraq, according to the Pentagon.

“I can confirm an attack last night by Iran-backed militias using a close-range ballistic missile against US and coalition forces at Al Asad airbase in Iraq,” deputy Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters.

The terrorist attack caused “several non-serious injuries and some minor damage to infrastructure,” she said.

In response, the US used an AC-130 gunship – a heavily armed and highly capable ground-attack aircraft – to “immediately” target a vehicle near the base that was associated with the militants, according to Singh.

The AC-130 was already in the air when the initial attack occurred and its crew was “able to keep an eye on the movement of these militants as they moved into their vehicles,” she said.

“The militants were targeted because the the AC-130 was able to determine the point of origin from where the close-range ballistic missiles were fired,” Singh said.

While a formal investigation is underway, the spokesperson could not say which Iran proxy group carried out the attack or how many militants were killed in the strike.

The attack and response come after US forces in the Middle East have come under relentless attack since the Oct. 7 Hamas assault on Israel and the resulting war in Gaza.

Posted by: Fred || 11/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF says it has completed encirclement of Gaza’s Jabaliya amid battles with gunmen
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says its 162nd Division has completed the encirclement of 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...
’s Jabaliya, and is ready to deepen the fighting.

It says the 215th Artillery Regiment and the Air Force carried out heavy strikes in Jabaliya to "prepare the ground for battle."

On the outskirts of Jabaliya, three tunnel entrances, with Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
operatives inside, were struck, the IDF says.

The army says troops of the 401st Armored Brigade and Nahal Infantry Brigade battled Hamas operatives on Jabaliya’s outskirts, with air support. The forces also found and destroyed rocket launchers in the area.

Troops of the 551st Reserve Brigade and other special forces operated in the northern part of Jabaliya, working to open up a route for the division to maneuver, the IDF says. It says troops killed several Hamas button men, seized weapons, and destroyed tunnels.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/22/2023 2023-11-22 02:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [20 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Jordan says Israel has ordered the evacuation of a Jordanian field hospital in Gaza
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [16 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  An interesting choice.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/22/2023 10:33 Comments || Top||

#2  "We warned ya"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/22/2023 11:07 Comments || Top||

#3  So it moves from the 'neutral' column
to the potentially hostile 'red' target column
before passing to the inert 'black' BDA collection column.
Posted by: Thor Thineling6045 || 11/22/2023 13:25 Comments || Top||


Israel raids terrorists' luxury homes, take over parliament and police HQs in Gaza
[NYPOST] Israel raided Hamas terrorists’ luxury homes and parliament and police headquarters in Gaza City on Sunday, taking control of the sites and uncovering a slew of weapons and tunnel entrances below them.

Israeli paratroopers and armored units descended on the neighborhoods of Sheikh Ijlin and Rimal, executing a series of rocket launches and raids in the heart of Gaza City, where Hamas has maintained power since 2007.

Much of the once-affluent area was already leveled by Israeli air strikes since the war began last month, but the Israel Defense Forces said it still encountered several Hamas operatives in Sheikh Ijlin and Rimal and killed them while also raiding some wealthy terrorist homes.

The IDF said it found 35 tunnel shafts in the area leading to Hamas’ 300-mile underground network, along with dozens of weapon stashes, The Jerusalem Post reported.

In addition, the IDF’s 7th Armored Brigade and Golani Infantry Brigade successfully took control of Hamas’ parliament building, its entire government complex and its police headquarters, The Times of Israel said.

The IDF captured a Gazan university faculty building, too, that allegedly served to produce and develop weapons for the terrorist group.

A Hamas training base, command center, interrogation rooms and detention cells were commandeered as well by the advancing Israeli army.

Hamas officials have yet to comment on the fighting in Sheikh Ijlin and Rimal, as rolling communications blackouts have become the norm in Gaza.

Israeli soldiers also captured Hamas' government facilities and headquarters.

In other developments:

  • The White House warned Israel against carrying out an all-out offensive in southern Gaza until the IDF finds a way to attack there while avoiding the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled south at Israel’s direction.

  • The Yemen-based, Iran-backed Houthis rebels have hijacked an Israeli-linked cargo ship in the Red seas carrying dozens of people as they vow to carry out attacks on vessels waving the Israeli flag.

  • The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused the Jewish state of killing some of its own people Oct. 7, claiming that an Israeli police helicopter may have accidentally fired on attendees at the Nova Music festival in Israel that day while trying to retaliate against Hamas as it attacked the event.

Sunday’s Israeli assaults in Gaza are the latest in the IDF’s advancements in the north of the region as it seeks to eradicate Hamas after the terror group’s Oct. 7 attack that claimed the lives of more than 1,200 people, mostly Israeli civilians.

Sunday's assault saw Israeli soldiers conduct rocket launches that killed several Hamas gunmen.

More than 11,500 Palestinians have been killed since war broke out, according to the Hamas-linked Gaza’s Health Ministry, with at least 11 more killed on Sunday after an Israeli airstrike hit a home in Jabalia.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sunday that two schools were hit by airstrikes in less than 24 hours in Gaza, killing many women and children.

“Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians are seeking shelter at United Nations facilities throughout Gaza due to the intensified fighting,” Guterres said in a statement. “I reaffirm that our premises are inviolable.”
"Inconceivable!"
The secretary-general’s statement came as Philippe Lazzarini, head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, said shelters in Gaza cannot afford to become “collateral damage” in the Israel-Hamas war.

“Most of the facilities hit had families in them – including older people, parents, and children,” Lazzarini said in a statement. “They were all clearly marked as UN buildings carrying a blue flag.

“Once again, shelters meant to provide safety and protection to civilians have been hit, killing many people, including children,” he said. “These acts not only blatantly contravene the rules of war, they also show a total disregard for humanity.”

IDF breaches blast door in Hamas tunnel under Shifa Hospital in Gaza City

[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it has breached a blast door at the end of a Hamas
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
tunnel discovered by forces last week underneath 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...
’s Shifa Hospital.

It publishes two images, one showing the open door and the other further inside the tunnel.

Earlier this week, the IDF released footage showing the inside of the tunnel shaft and part of the tunnel. After around 55 meters, the tunnel ended with a blast door, likely protecting Hamas assets below ground.

The IDF has said for weeks that a major network of tunnels and bunkers exists under Shifa.

The tunnel shaft had been located on the hospital grounds under a canopy, where IDF troops had also found a Hamas pickup truck with weapons in it, similar to those used by the terror group in the October 7 attacks.

Along with Shifa, Israel accuses Hamas of using other hospitals in the Strip for terror purposes.
Posted by: Fred || 11/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [17 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  I am sure the archives of the Hamas’ parliament will make interesting reading
Posted by: Kojo Hupereger9131 || 11/22/2023 2:48 Comments || Top||

#2  ^I doubt if it ever actually met.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/22/2023 6:16 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ ....doubt if it ever actually met.

Our own congress often meets but accomplishes nothing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/22/2023 6:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Wait - they have luxury homes in Gaza? Who knew?
Posted by: Raj || 11/22/2023 9:09 Comments || Top||

#5  ^^^ Of course the "right people" always live in luxury, no matter where they are.

And apparently someone blabbed to the IDF, who now also know.
Posted by: Tom || 11/22/2023 11:43 Comments || Top||

#6  "Candygram"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/22/2023 11:52 Comments || Top||

#7  @Raj The Open Air Prison has a Michelin Star Restaurant too: Fawda Restaurant & Cafe.

Who knew?
Posted by: mossomo || 11/22/2023 13:05 Comments || Top||

#8  Most of the facilities had families in them

"Magua will put their children to the knife, so they will know their seed is wiped out forever"
Posted by: Regular joe || 11/22/2023 13:33 Comments || Top||

#9  @#6: "Half a gram"!
Posted by: Winky Shoger2706 || 11/22/2023 15:28 Comments || Top||


Palestinian Islamic Jihad Announces Death of Elderly Hostage Hannah Katzir
[LI] The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an ally of Hamas, announced the death of hostage Hannah Katzir, 77.

The Islamic Jihad murdered Katzir’s husband and kidnapped her and her son on October 7.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [9 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Islamic Jihad


Netanyahu summons Israeli war cabinet as signs grow of a hostage deal, cabinet votes to approve
[GEO.TV] With the corpse count in Israeli aggression 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...
surpassing the 14,000 mark — including around 6,000 children — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has summoned his war cabinet amid growing signs of an imminent deal on the release of hostages.

"We are making progress. I don't think it's worth saying too much, not at even this moment, but I hope there will be good news soon," Netanyahu told reservists without providing further details.

Two far-right members of Netanyahu's government said they would vote against the deal when the full cabinet meets at 8pm (1800 GMT), though they were not expected to tip the vote.

[TWITTER]

...As part of the hostage deal Israel would release three Palestinian prisoners held in Israel for each Israeli hostage released by Hamas.

In the first phase of the two-phase deal, Hamas is expected to release 50 Israeli women and children held in Gaza, while Israel is expected to release around 150 Palestinian prisoners, mostly women and minors.

The release of hostages and prisoners in the first phase of the deal would take place over four days of ceasefire in Gaza.

As part of the deal, Israel would allow around 300 aid trucks per day to enter Gaza from Egypt.

In a second phase, Hamas could release up to another 50 Israeli hostages — women, children and elderly people — in return for extending the ceasefire by several more days.

Israel would also release Palestinian prisoners at the same 3:1 ratio to the number of hostages freed.

Cabinet approves deal for release of 50 hostages in exchange for multi-day ceasefire

[IsraelTimes] Israel believes Hamas could potentially locate some 30 more mothers and children and that the 4-day halt could be extended by extra day per each 10 Israeli hostages freed.

Courtesy of Skidmark:
Israel, Hamas agree to temporary cease-fire, hostage release deal including freeing 3 Americans

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Posted by: Fred || 11/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [6 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Interesting that 'people' seem to accept as fact that Israel is killing almost entirely innocent civilians, despite having some of world's most accurate munitions and operating at very short range. Logically one should think either these civilians are not civilians, or are not actually hit, or are only hit because they are being used as human shields (or a combination of all three.)
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/22/2023 10:08 Comments || Top||

#2  I'll say it again: Right after 9/11, some imam said "there are no civilians" in the jihad struggle thingee.

Let's make them all live by that.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/22/2023 10:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Suppose Net is giving the prisoners cellphones to 'check in'?
Posted by: Thor Thineling6045 || 11/22/2023 13:31 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli drone strike kills 4 Hamas terrorists in Lebanon
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli dronezap 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 killed four members of the Paleostinian terror group Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
, a Paleostinian official and a Lebanese security official say.

The strike today occurred in the village of Chaatiyeh near the Mediterranean coast, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to reveal military information.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency confirms that four people were killed in a vehicle but did not give any further details.

The Paleostinian official said the four were members of the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing. The Lebanese security official says the four were members of Hamas, without saying if they were from the military wing.

The Israeli military does not comment on the strike.

According to unconfirmed reports circulating on social media, among the Hamas members killed today was Khalil Kharaz, the deputy commander of Hamas’s Lebanon wing.

Hamas has a large presence in Lebanon, which is home to tens of thousands of Palestinians, many of them living in the country’s 12 refugee camps.

Since Hamas’s shock Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel that killed about 1,200 people, Hamas has claimed responsibility for firing rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel — along with many more fired by Lebanon terror group Hezbollah — as well as one cross-border infiltration.

On October 14, Hamas said three of its fighters were killed along the border and their bodies remain in Israel.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/22/2023 2023-11-22 01:42 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [21 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Will we produce a rational Kzin?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/22/2023 1:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Why are you asking us?
What's a kzin?
Posted by: Thor Thineling6045 || 11/22/2023 13:22 Comments || Top||


IDF strikes Lebanese Hezbollah
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] IDF fighters attacked targets of the Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah. This was reported on October 22 in the Telegram channel of the Israeli military department.

The Israelis carried out air strikes on Hezbollah's military infrastructure and surveillance equipment in response to shelling from Lebanon.

Several Lebanese drones were also shot down by air defenses.

As Regnum reported, the Saraya al-Quds (Companies of Jerusalem) group, the military wing of the radical Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, announced the death of an Israeli hostage held in the Gaza Strip.

The death toll in the Gaza Strip since the start of Israeli strikes has exceeded 14 thousand, and more than 33 thousand people have been injured.

The foreign ministers of seven states have created a contact group on Gaza and intend to visit Moscow as part of a diplomatic tour.

Lebanese media claims Israeli strike kills 2 journalists, another civilian

[IsraelTimes] An Israeli strike in south Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
killed two journalists and another civilian today, official media in Lebanon claims, while Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television says two of its staff were killed.

The state-run National News Agency reports "the death of three citizens — two journalists and another civilian — in enemy bombing" of the Tair Harfa area. al-Mayadeen says its "correspondent Farah Omar and cameraman Rabih Maamari were killed by an Israeli attack."

The IDF has said it struck Hezbollah targets, including missile launching squads and other military sites. It has not commented on the Lebanese claims so far.
Posted by: badanov || 11/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [9 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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