#9
I was thinking of opening a gym where people can come and work out. Then, after 3 months, convert it to a wine bar where people who quit can come and have a good time.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
12/27/2023 15:27 Comments ||
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#10
Celebrate the duality of man.
Sell wine at the health bar.
Sell health at the wine club.
[IsraelTimes] Explosions were heard over the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Dahab a short while ago, Egyptian news channel Al Qahera reports.
Citing eyewitnesses, the news channel states that a flying object was shot down around two kilometers off the city’s coast.
Dahab is located on the southeast coast of the Sinai Peninsula.
On December 16, the Egyptian air force shot down a Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... drone in the area, state-linked media reported.
[FoxNews] The U.S. Navy fired anti-ship ballistic missiles on Tuesday against incoming Iran-backed Houthi missiles in the Red Sea, signaling a significant escalation in the region, a senior defense official told Fox News.
The Navy engaged three ballistic missiles provided to Yemen's Houthis by Iran. It was the first time the Navy shot down an incoming ballistic missile using an anti-ship ballistic missile.
Naval assets, including the USS Laboon and F/A-18 Super Hornets from the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, shot down 12 one-way attack drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles and two land attack missiles fired by the Houthis over a 12-hour period, U.S. Central Command said.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] "The Naval Forces of the 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... i Armed Forces, with the help of God Almighty, carried out an operation against a commercial ship, "MSC UNITED," with appropriate naval missiles," Spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces in Sana’a, Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e said in a statement on Tuesday.
The attack on the ship came after its crew refused, for the third time, calls from the naval forces as well as repeated fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... warning messages, Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e explained.
In the statement issued this evening, Sare’e confirmed that the Yemeni Armed Forces’ Air Force also carried out a military operation against Zionist military targets in the Umm al-Rashrash area
...what they call the city of Eilat...
and other areas in occupied Paleostine with a number of drones, in solidarity with the oppressed Paleostinian people who continue to face death, destruction, siege, and starvation. Not necessarily in that order
"The Yemeni Armed Forces affirm their continued support and support of the Paleostinian people as part of their religious, moral and humanitarian duty," he stated.
The military front man concluded his statement by saying, "The Yemeni armed forces confirm the continuation of their operations in the Red and Arab Seas against Zionist ships or those heading to the ports of occupied Paleostine until the entry of the food and medicine needed by 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... Strip."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Houthi rebels supported by Iran launched a barrage of drones and missiles north towards Israel on Tuesday, with the onslaught blocked by a U.S. Navy destroyer and F/A-18 Super Hornets.
U.S. Central Command said that the attack began at 6:30am and lasted for 10 hours.
'U.S. assets, to include the USS LABOON (DDG 58) and F/A-18 Super Hornets from the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, shot down twelve one-way attack drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles, and two land attack cruise missiles in the Southern Red Sea that were fired by the Houthis over a 10 hour period which began at approximately 6:30 a.m. (Sanaa time) on December 26,' Centcom said on X.
'There was no damage to ships in the area or reported injuries.'
#1
Old Lloyd is gonna have to get his shit together.
This 'proportional' one-for-one reactive skirmish is going to become a battle of attrition real quick.
#4
You can bet that the Iranians and their Chinese allies are recording every bit of the communications/signals/electronic emissions associated with this engagement as well as tactics and trigger protocols.
AKA (COMINT/SIGINT/ELINT/Meaconing/Traffic Analysis on Encrypted Comms)
"Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether communications between people (communications intelligence—abbreviated to COMINT) or from electronic signals not directly used in communication (electronic intelligence—abbreviated to ELINT).[1] Signals intelligence is a subset of intelligence collection management. As classified and sensitive information is usually encrypted, signals intelligence in turn involves the use of cryptanalysis to decipher the messages. Traffic analysis—the study of who is signaling whom and in what quantity—is also used to integrate information again."
#6
B, I'm well past my "sell-by date" and so are my compatriots, as I suspect you may be? Nowadays, I'm strictly an OSINT curmudgen! But I do remember Arlington Hall Station vaguely...
#7
Ha, yes "well past." I was in and out of "The Hall" and VHFS a few times, before they moved and "The Farm" was shut down. I used to enjoy the drive out there. It was a nice drive in the country and essentially a day off.
[IsraelTimes] London’s Metropolitan Police are investigating a suspected arson attack at the north London office of Conservative MP Mike Free after a fire spread on Christmas Eve, authorities announce.
Freer represents the constituencies of Finchley and Golders Green, home to one of London’s largest Orthodox Jewish communities. He has been an outspoken critic of Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... in the wake of the brutal October 7 onslaught in southern Israel.
The fire is being treated as a possible arson attack, and Freer says it’s just "one of the many threats" he’s faced in recent weeks, according to local media.
Freer was not in the office at the time of the fire and nobody was injured, police say.
#1
In short, Muslims/Islam has been and will always be at war with Israel & Christianity.
EU played Politically Correct and had OPEN BORDERS. So millions of Muslims came to the EU and settled.
The EU failed to remember a basic rule of combative conflicting cultures. They will silently blend in, until their numbers allow them to speak out. Then they will resume their hostile warring ways.
#2
OBTW:
The DC Swamp OPEN BORDERS and mass immigration agenda will have no different end result, either.
United States of America:
The USA Muslim population, according to updated official estimates, is about 9+ million. Of which, 78% are 18 to 40 years old. Which is about 7 Million available for a religious war, or riots.
#6
The USA Muslim population, according to updated official estimates, is about 9+ million.
Back about 2007, I think it was, the Muslims claimed an American population of 6 million so that they would be as popular as the Jews – although they’re actual population was about 2 million. So I have to wonder how close to reality the current estimate of 9+ million is.
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[Regnum] A citizen of Tajikistan was arrested in Germany in connection with the case of preparing an armed attack on Cologne Cathedral, according to a message published on December 26 on the city police website.
“In connection with the investigation into the threat to the Cologne Cathedral, Cologne police carried out a search of Wesele’s apartment on Christmas Eve using special units and detained five people. Four of them were released,” the report says.
It is noted that for security reasons, operatives took into custody a 30-year-old citizen of Tajikistan, in respect of whom information related to state security was received. By decision of the Oberhausen District Court, the man was placed in custody until January 7, 2024.
As Regnum reported , on November 4, Hamburg airport was temporarily closed due to an armed man who, in an Audi car, broke through the security barrier and drove into the aircraft maintenance area, where he opened fire and threw two burning bottles out of the car window. His four-year-old daughter was in the car with him. On November 5, the armed man surrendered to the police. According to the TPA agency, the man is an ethnic Turk who quarreled with his wife over a dispute over child custody.
[OneIndia] The Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... administration on Saturday announced compensation and jobs to the kin of the three civilians who were found dead in Poonch district as a massive search operation was underway to track down bully boyz behind the recent ambush on two Army vehicles that left five soldiers dead.
The three men, aged between 27 and 42, were found dead under "mysterious circumstances" on Friday. Their relatives and politicians, however, alleged that they were among the eight people picked up by the Army for questioning in connection with Thursday's ambush. They also alleged that four others were admitted to a government hospital with "torture injuries".
The bodies of the civilians were laid to rest at their ancestral graveyard in Buffliaz Saturday afternoon, the officials said. As the search operation was underway and the situation remained tense, the authorities suspended mobile Internet services in Poonch and neighboring Rajouri district as a precautionary measure to check rumor-mongering and prevent any law and order problem, officials said.
Five soldiers were killed and two injured when heavily armed bully boyz ambushed two Army vehicles at a blind curve at Dhatyar Morh between Dhera Ki Gali and Bufliaz on Thursday. The ambush took place when the security personnel were moving to an ongoing search operation in the general area of Dhera Ki Gali in the Thanamandi-Surankote region. Soon after the ambush, security forces launched a massive search operation in the densely forested areas, also covering nearby Thanamandi in Rajouri, but there was no fresh contact with the fleeing bully boyz so far, officials said.
Sound of firing was heard deep inside a forest in the Dhera Ki Gali area Saturday afternoon but the security agencies later clarified that security forces resorted to speculative firing to check a natural cave. Sources said the bodies of three slain civilians -- Safeer Hussain (43), Mohd Showket (27), and Shabir Ahmad (32) of Topa Peer village of Buffliaz -- were handed over to their families after a postmortem Saturday morning. "All the three were innocent civilians and died of torture in the custody of the Army," Mohd Sadiq, a relative of one of the dear departed, told PTI over the phone from the village.
Sadiq, a panch, said he had informed senior police and civil officers about the random arrests and torture but nobody paid any heed. "Five more persons are reportedly injured and are still in the custody of Army," he said.
Sources, however, said four persons - Mohd Zulfkar, his brother Mohd Betab, Fazal Hussain and Mohd Farooq -- were admitted to the Government Medical College Hospital in Rajouri with alleged torture injuries. Jammu Divisional Commissioner Ramesh Kumar and Inspector General of Police Anand Jain are also camping in Poonch and are monitoring the situation, the officials said.
Additional police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed in sensitive pockets of the districts to maintain peace.
Three to four heavily-armed terrorists targeted an army gypsy and a truck at Dhatyar Morh between Dhera Ki Gali and Bufliaz under the jurisdiction of Surankote police station in Poonch late Thursday afternoon, killing five soldiers and injuring two others. After the attack, the terrorists reportedly mutilated the bodies of at least two soldiers and took weapons of some of them.
The Peoples Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF), an offshoot of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT), claimed responsibility for the ambush.
HISTORY OF VIOLENCE IN THE REGION
The ambush in Poonch comes after a series of encounters in the Rajouri and Poonch districts this year. In November, a two-day-long encounter in the Dharmsal belt of the Bajimaal forest area resulted in the deaths of five Army personnel, including two captains, and a top LeT commander. Additionally, in April and May, separate incidents in the Chamrer forest led to the deaths of five and five Army personnel, respectively. The stretch between Dhera Ki Gali and Bufliaz, located on the boundary of Rajouri and Poonch districts, has seen frequent terrorist activity due to its dense forest cover. This area provides a convenient route for terrorists to infiltrate the Indian side of the border.
[OneIndia] A retired senior police officer of the Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... police was rubbed out by snuffies in the state's Baramulla district on Sunday while he was offering prayers at a mosque on Sunday.
According to the police, Mohammad Shafi Mir, a retired Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), was targeted by assailants during his azan (prayers) at a local mosque in Gantamulla Bala area, as per police reports.
Following the attack, the J&K police secured the area and initiated an investigation into the tragic incident.
"Terrorists fired upon Shri Mohd Shafi, a retired police officer at Gantmulla, Sheeri Baramulla, while praying Azan in the mosque and succumbed to injuries. (The) area has been cordoned off. Further details awaited," the Kashmir Zone police said in a post on the X.
Last month, snuffies critically maimed a police inspector near Srinagar's Eidgah mosque. The inspector, Masroor Ahmad Wani, sustained severe injuries after the attack while playing cricket with local boys at the Eidgah ground in Srinagar. He was subsequently hospitalized for treatment.
[OneIndia] On Tuesday evening, a blast occurred near the Israel embassy in the Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave in New Delhi. Fortunately, no injuries were reported in the incident. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... an abusive letter addressed to the Israeli ambassador was discovered near the site, raising concerns about the security of the embassy.
Upon receiving a call about a loud sound emanating from Jindal House behind the embassy at 5:53 pm, the police control room (PCR) promptly dispatched teams from the Crime Branch, bomb disposal squad, dog squad, and forensic department to the scene. An extensive search operation was conducted in the area, lasting nearly three hours. Additionally, a team from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrived to examine the site.
The explosion and the discovery of the letter serve as a grim reminder of the 2021 blast near the embassy, which resulted in damage to several cars. The NIA had previously investigated that incident.
Security around the Israel embassy has been elevated since the outbreak of the conflict between Israel and Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... earlier this year. Following the earth-shattering kaboom, which occurred in a green belt area outside the Central Hindi Training Institute near the embassy, teams from the Delhi Police's Special Cell, bomb disposal squad, and fire department swiftly arrived at the scene. Subsequently, a team from the NIA conducted an examination of the site.
Israeli embassy spokesperson Guy Nir confirmed the incident, stating that the blast occurred in close proximity to the embassy at approximately 5:48 pm. The Delhi Police and the embassy's security team are actively investigating the situation. Deputy Chief of Mission Israel Ohad Nakash Kaynar reassured that all diplomats and workers are safe and that their security teams are fully cooperating with local Delhi security to thoroughly investigate the matter.
Police sources revealed the discovery of a typed letter addressed to the Israeli ambassador near the earth-shattering kaboom site behind the embassy premises. The letter, deemed abusive in nature, has been sent to the forensic lab for fingerprint analysis. It is a one-page letter written in English and is suspected to be linked to an organization, according to a police source.
In response to the incident, security has been further bolstered around the embassy and other Israeli establishments. A thorough search operation was conducted in the vicinity of the embassy, covering every corner of the area. Experts have meticulously examined the scene and collected potential exhibits for forensic examination, as stated in a statement released by the Delhi Police. The investigation is ongoing.
Notably, no traces of burnt explosives were found at the scene. Security officials who visited the site suggested that the possibility of a chemical explosion cannot be ruled out due to the absence of explosive remnants.
In February 2012, a bomb was planted under an Israeli embassy car in Delhi, resulting in injuries to a diplomat's wife.
[IsraelTimes] The National Security Council issues an advisory urging Israelis in India, particularly New Delhi, to exercise increased caution after a kaboom earlier today near the Israeli embassy that it says was likely a terror attack.
The advisory calls to avoid crowded areas such as malls and markets, as well as sites associated with Jews and Israelis; be extra vigilant in public places; refrain from displaying Israeli symbols; avoid crowded events that aren’t secured; and not share photos on social media that could reveal their location.
[IsraelTimes] Two suspects have been spotted on security footage during the investigation into the blast yesterday near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, Indian media reports.
According to the reports, cited by the Ynet news site, investigators are analyzing the footage.
Yesterday’s explosion rattled the embassy building, but caused no injuries.
A letter threatening the ambassador was reportedly found nearby. Reports say the “abusive” letter was signed by “Sir Allah Resistance.”
Such a clever, scary Lion of Islam — yes, it is!
One India has an image from the security footage here.
[Breitbart] Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement that U.S. military strikes against sites used to injure U.S. troops in Iraq on Christmas Day were “proportionate.”
“Today, at President Biden’s direction, U.S. military forces conducted necessary and proportionate strikes on three facilities used by Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups in Iraq,” Austin said in a statement on Monday.
He added:
These precision strikes are a response to a series of attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-sponsored militias, including an attack by Iran-affiliated Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups on Erbil Air Base earlier today, and intended to disrupt and degrade capabilities of the Iran-aligned militia groups directly responsible.
The attack against U.S. troops in Erbil in northern Iraq left three troops injured, including one in critical condition.
It was the first time troops have been critically injured in the recent wave of attacks in Iraq and Syria since October 17, 2023, when Iran-backed groups warned they would attack U.S. troops in response to an Israeli offensive against Hamas. Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist group, attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing more than 1,200 and taking about 240 hostage, including Americans.
The Biden administration has attempted to separate the attacks on U.S. troops from the Israel-Hamas war, claiming that it has helped to successfully contain the conflict by sending military assets to the region.
However, here have been over 100 attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria, with over 60 troops injured, including at least 19 who suffered traumatic brain injuries. The administration has claimed the injuries have been “minor.”
The Christmas Day casualties are the first that included an injury described as “critical.”
Austin said his “prayers are with the brave Americans who were injured.”
Despite the U.S. only conducting about a handful of counterstrikes in response — including one after Monday’s attack — Austin said he and President Biden “will not hesitate” to defend the United States, its troops, and its interests.
“There is no higher priority. While we do not seek to escalate conflict in the region, we are committed and fully prepared to take further necessary measures to protect our people and our facilities,” Austin said.
[IsraelTimes] At least one member of a pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... faction was killed and 24 were maimed in US strikes on three sites in Iraq used by pro-Iranian group Kataeb Hezbollah, Iraqi security sources report.
An interior ministry official says the strikes targeted a Hashed al-Shaabi site in the central city of Hilla, capital of Babylon province.
One person was killed and 20 maimed, while four others were maimed in a second strike in the southern province of Wassit.
The strikes were carried out in response to a drone attack on US forces in which three soldiers were maimed, one critically.
Hashed al-Shaabi, or the Popular Mobilization Forces, is an umbrella group of largely Iran-backed forces allied with Iraq’s military.
#8
^^ Yeah, a "proportionate response" is just a stupid response. And they'll cackle with glee that they got away with poking the Eagle.
You have to go full Mongol or Dresden before they'd understand. But, in their minds, they'll still be winning.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
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#9
'Proportionate' to me would be to eliminate that group's ability to wage war in that region. Any captured terrorists would be summarily executed by hanging in the public square. Rinse and repeat every time US troops are attacked.
#10
Yea, well, after 3 months of screechng "proportional, proportional!" at Israel, what did you expect them to do? IMO, it's a miracle US military is allowed to respond at all.
Looking at my crystal ball: Arabs will produce an irrefutable evidence of civilian casualties (the always do, stock footage), and USG will bend backward apologizing.
#11
Defense Secretary Says Strikes in Response to Attacks Against U.S. Troops in Iraq Were ‘Proportionate'
And that's the problem. I recall Krushchev saying something like "If someone slaps us, we do not turn the other cheek; we slap back so that the head falls off."
[IsraelTimes] One soldier was lightly maimed during festivities with Paleostinian button men in the Nur Shams refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Tulkarem overnight, the IDF says.
The soldier was hurt by shrapnel after button men opened fire and hurled explosives at troops, the statement adds.
Troops seized some 30 firearms, detonated an explosives lab, and detained eight suspects during the raid.
[IsraelTimes] IDF reservists and Border Police officers have been operating overnight in the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem in the West Bank, detaining wanted Palestinians and seizing explosives, the military says.
Troops located an explosives lab in the area, with dozens of primed IEDs and other equipment, according to the IDF.
The IDF says the soldiers also seized makeshift rockets and other firearms in the building.
The building housing the explosive lab was later destroyed in a controlled manner by combat engineers, the army says, adding that one suspect living there was detained.
Footage posted to social media shows the moment the building exploded.
Another seven wanted Palestinians have been detained so far in the operation in Nur Shams, the IDF says.
Palestinian media also reported clashes in the camp overnight, though there are no reports of injuries.
Since the October 7 Hamas onslaught in southern Israel, troops have arrested more than 2,400 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,200 affiliated with Hamas.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says nine soldiers were maimed, one of them seriously, in an anti-tank guided missile attack in Shomera in northern Israel, after arriving to evacuate a civilian maimed in an earlier Hezbollah attack against a church.
Hezbollah fired a missile from 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... at the Greek Orthodox Church of Iqrit, moderately wounding a civilian in his 80s.
As troops arrived to evacuate the maimed man, Hezbollah fired additional missiles, wounding nine soldiers.
One was listed at death's door, while the other eight were listed in good-to-moderate condition.
The IDF says it targeted a Hezbollah site in Lebanon, as well as a building to which the operative who launched the missile at the church fled.
The IDF says Hezbollah also fired a missile from near a mosque in southern Lebanon’s Yaroun at the Dovev area in northern Israel.
"This is further proof of Hezbollah’s cynical exploitation of Lebanese civilians and holy sites for its terrorist activity," the IDF says.
Projectiles were also fired at the Yiftah and Mount Dov areas on the border. The IDF says it is shelling the launch sites with artillery.
[IsraelTimes] Military corpse count in ground offensive reaches 161; army says focus shifting to central area of Strip; rocket hits synagogue 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... border community, but no injuries
The IDF announced Tuesday that three more soldiers had been killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip, bringing the toll of slain troops since the start of the ground offensive to 161 as battles intensified in the central Strip between troops and Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... ’s al-Bureij battalion.
The dear departed soldiers were named as:
Master Sgt. (res.) Maor Lavi, 33, of the Bislamach Brigade’s 450th Battalion, from Susya.
Cpt. Shay Shamriz, 26, a company commander in the Nahal Brigade’s 931st Battalion, from Merkaz Shapira.
Cpt. (res.) Shaul Greenglick, 26, of the Nahal Brigade’s 931st Battalion, from Ra’anana.
Lavi was killed in central Gaza in a battle that also seriously maimed another soldier of the 450th Battalion. Shamriz and Greenglick were killed in the northern part of the Strip. Another officer and two soldiers of the 931st Battalion were seriously maimed in the same battle.
Separately, a soldier of the Nahal Brigade’s reconnaissance unit was seriously hurt in northern Gaza.
Earlier Tuesday, the military announced the deaths of Staff Sgt. (res.) Elisha Yehonatan Lober and Sgt. First Class (res.) Joseph Yosef Gitarts.
The deaths came as the IDF was further expanding its operations in the central Gaza Strip.
"The IDF forces are fighting in the Gaza Strip in Khan Younis, and we have expanded the fighting to the area called the ’Central Camps,'" IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said on Tuesday evening.
"We are operating in Khan Younis with new methods and with a different composition of forces, and the same is true of the central camps," he added, referring to the area made up of several refugee camps in central Gaza.
"We will continue to adapt the operation, the method and the composition of the forces according to the operational needs," Hagari said.
Khan Younis is the largest city in southern Gaza, where many leaders of the Hamas terror group are thought to have fled. On Monday, Hamas’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, assumed to be in Khan Younis, appeared defiant in his first message since the October 7 massacre, grossly inflating the terror group’s achievements in the war.
The IDF said Tuesday that the 36th Division was moving away from the Gaza City area and striking Hamas’s al-Bureij battalion, which consists of around 1,000 fighters and is just one of four Hamas battalions in the terror group’s central camps brigade.
"The battalions of the central camps are currently facing the might of the IDF. They will cease to function as other battalions have ceased to function," said the commander of the 36th Division, Brig. Gen. Dado Bar Kalifa.
The four Hamas battalions in the central camps brigade — al-Bureij, Deir al-Balah, Maghazi and Nuseirat — have all sustained some damage in Israeli strikes, but are believed to be largely functioning. The commander of the central camps brigade, Ayman Nofel, was killed in an Israeli strike last month.
During the first hours of ground operations in al-Bureij, the IDF said troops of the Bislamach Brigade located a tunnel shaft leading to a large underground Hamas tunnel network, as well as a training ground.
The IDF is currently focusing most of its efforts on the southern part of the Strip, while conducting clear-up operations of Hamas infrastructure in the north.
The 36th Division had fought in the Gaza City neighborhoods of Zeitoun, Shejaiya, Rimal and Shati.
"The fighting in Shejaiya was difficult and complex, and we managed to achieve significant achievements during it. Shejaiya will no longer be a terror center for Hamas," Bar Kalifa said.
The IDF has begun to demolish buildings in areas it has captured along the Gaza border, including Shejaiya, to establish a one-kilometer buffer zone, so that residents of Israeli border towns can return to live in their communities in safety.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... sporadic rocket fire continued Tuesday toward towns in the south, with projectiles fired at Ashkelon, Sderot and a number of Gaza border communities. There were no injuries, but a rocket struck a synagogue in a town in the Sdot Negev Regional Council. Video from the synagogue showed a significant hole in the roof and extensive damage inside.
With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders vowing to continue fighting, despite growing international pressure to wind down the battle and calls at home for a deal to free hostages held in Gaza, the military appeared poised Tuesday for a newly intensified push into the central and southern parts of the Strip.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said that the military is expanding its operations in southern and central Gaza as it is close to dismantling all of Hamas’s battalions in the northern part of the Strip, but warned that the war will last "many more months."
Halevi said that the military was concentrating its efforts in the south of the Strip while continuing to "preserve and deepen the achievement" in northern Gaza.
He added that the IDF "will not allow a return to the security reality before October 7, and we will not allow such an event to be repeated."
Halevi warned that the war would not end in the near future.
"This war has necessary and not easy goals to achieve, it takes place in complex territory. That’s why the war will continue for many more months, and we will work with different methods, so that the achievement will be maintained for a long time," he said, adding that the IDF is constantly learning and adapting its fighting methods to each area of the Gaza Strip it operates in.
"There are no magic solutions, no shortcuts in the thorough dismantling of a terror organization, but stubborn and determined fighting. And we are very, very determined," Halevi said.
Halevi’s comments came hours after Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowed Israel would punish Hamas over its brutal October 7 attack, "whether it takes months or years."
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... Netanyahu is facing pressure from Washington to quickly transition toward a less intense form of fighting, with US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... ’s administration joining international calls for the humanitarian crisis in the Strip to ease, even as Washington has continued to back Israel’s refusal to entertain a ceasefire with Hamas still in charge of Gaza.
Israel launched its war against Hamas after the terror group led an unprecedented assault into southern Israel on October 7. Some 1,200 people in Israel, most of them civilians, were massacred. Another approximately 240 people were kidnapped. A previous truce deal allowed for the release of over 100 hostages, but talks for a new deal have foundered.
The expanding fighting has pushed the Gazook population into a shrinking area, particularly the city of Deir al-Balah in the center and Rafah in the far south of Gaza, on the Egyptian border. More than a million people have squeezed into UN shelters, and many more displaced people are crowded into houses.
Gaza’s civilians are suffering dire shortages of water, food, fuel and medicine, with only limited aid entering the Strip.
The Paleostinian telecommunications company Paltel said Tuesday that internet and telephone services were cut again across Gaza.
"We regret to announce a complete breakdown of fixed telecommunications and internet services in the Gaza Strip due to the ongoing offensive," the company said, announcing the fourth such breakdown since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7.
Gaza’s Hamas-controlled health authorities claim Israel’s bombing campaign and fighting on the ground have killed over 20,915 people in Gaza, though the figures cannot be verified. Hamas has been accused of inflating casualty figures in the past, and including those killed by misfired Paleostinian rockets.
Hamas does not differentiate between civilians and combatants. The IDF says it has killed some 8,000 Hamas operatives in Gaza and another 1,000 turbans during and immediately after the October 7 attacks.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF announces the deaths of three additional soldiers killed fighting in 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... , bringing the Israeli corpse count in the ongoing ground operation in the Strip to 164.
They are:
Lt. Yaron Eliezer Chitiz, 23, deputy company commander in the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion, from Ra’anana.
Staff Sgt. Itay Buton, 20, a soldier in the Shaked battalion in the Givati Brigade, from Petah Tikva.
Staff Sgt. Efraim Jackman, 21, a soldier in the Shaked battalion in the Givati Brigade, from Neve Daniel.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Paleostine Red Islamic Thingy Society announced on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation army bombed the upper floors of the society’s headquarters in the city of Khan Yunis, south of 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... Strip.
The Society said that the headquarters houses thousands of displaced Paleostinians who took refuge there to escape the Israeli bombing of their homes.
Known in the trade as human shields.
During the past hours, the occupation aircraft intensified its raids on Khan Yunis and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, resulting in dozens of deaths and maimed, as well as on Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.
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