[KhaamaPress] According to reports, ISIS-Khurasan has grabbed credit for the attack on civilians at the "Qala-e-Nazir Station" west of Kabul, which resulted in the deaths of two individuals and injuries to 14 others.
Khalid Zadran, the spokesperson for the Kabul police, confirmed that the earth-shattering kaboom occurred around 6:00 PM on Saturday night, in the vicinity of the sixth security district of Kabul city at the "Qala-e-Nazir Station." He stated that the attack involved a mini-bus vehicle, resulting in two deaths and 20 injuries.
In a statement, the Khurasan branch of ISIS claimed that 20 individuals were killed in this explosion.
Previously, in the aftermath of a bombing attack on a city bus in the Dasht-e-Barchi area,
...the West Kabul neighbourhood where the Hazaras live. They get massacred regularly, as both the Taliban and ISIS-K consider them heretics...
seven people were killed, and 20 others were maimed.
ISIS-K claimed that one, too.
It’s worth noting that the ISIS Khurasan branch has previously taken responsibility for deadly attacks against followers of the Shia community in Afghanistan at public places, including clubs, schools, mosques, educational centers, and hospitals.
Since the Taliban ...Arabic for students... assumed control of Afghanistan, ensuring security has been a significant challenge for the group. Unfortunately, terrorist attacks continue to occur in the country, resulting in the loss of innocent civilian lives.
The Taliban’s efforts to establish stability and security in Afghanistan have faced ongoing obstacles, and these attacks underline the difficulties they encounter in maintaining peace and order in the region.
An explosion in western Kabul left two dead and fourteen wounded on Saturday evening. Khaled Zadran, the spokesperson for Kabul police, confirmed an explosion in the “Dasht-e Barchi” area of Kabul city. He stated that in this explosion, two people were killed, and fourteen others were injured.
Mr. Zadran did not specify the nature of this explosion but mentioned that it targeted a mini-bus vehicle.
Local sources report that this explosion occurred around 6:30 near Qala-e Nazar.
No individual or organization has claimed responsibility for the explosion.
[ShabelleMedia] The command of the armed forces of Somalia has given more details about an operation in the southern Mudug region, the flashpoint of ongoing festivities.
The operation, which was a combination of air and ground, was carried out by the SNA forces near the Jeh Jeha area where the al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... group had dug large defensive holes.
The Somali National Army said that in the operation that took place yesterday, nearly 100 turbans were killed, including their leader, whose name has not yet been identified.
"In the operation of the terrorist group in Mudug, more turbans were killed. The command of the Somali Armed Forces, in cooperation with international friends," said a statement from the country’s Armed Forces.
The news from the Command also mentioned the bombing that destroyed a car that was carrying several leaders of the al-Shabaab group, according to the blurb.
"In the coming days, the operation in Mudug region will be ended, and all the forces of Evil will be removed from the places they now control," the statement added.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the heavy operations came hours after the commander of the 18th battalion of the Gorgor unit of the National Army was killed along with soldiers near Aad town on Saturday.
Somalia-based Al-Shabaab militants have suffered huge blows in the latest crackdown at Jehe-jeha area within the central parts of the country, following an operation by the Somali National Army (SNA) with the help of US Africa Command.
According to the state media, 26 Al-Shabaab militants were killed on Sunday, marking one of the greatest achievements at the beginning of the year, even as the country plots to eliminate the militants after 16 years of troubles.
The international community has been helpful in the fight against Al-Shabaab, with the US Africa Command being consistent with air bombardments. The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) has also been crucial in battlefields.
"Somali forces and International allies eliminate 26 al-Shabaab, including group leader, in Jeh-jeha area. The operation follows deadly clash that left 50+ militants dead," read the statement by the state media.
The government of Somalia has activated a crackdown against the Al-Shabaab in central and southern regions which first phase of operations leaving over 3000 militants dead. The second phase is due to kick off in Jubaland and Southwest states.
Already, the Somali National Army has started taking over security responsibilities from ATMIS troops who have left the country. So far, 5,000 ATMIS troops have left the country in complicated with the Somali Transition Plan.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud maintains that by the end of 2024 when the last contingent of mission troops leave, the war against Al-Shabaab would have been won. The UN Security Council lifted the arms embargo imposed on Somalia, giving the country autonomy to purchase sophisticated weapons.
[NY Post] Making no friends and influencing nobody
Dozens
...golly...
of anti-Israel protesters swarmed three bridges and the Holland Tunnel in Lower Manhattan on Monday morning,
...fortunately after rush hour, which is why there were no murders...
creating chaos as they blocked traffic and prompting more than 130 arrests.
The shouting demonstrators from the “Shut it Down for Palestine”
...one of a number of red-green joint projects of the Black Bloc/Antifa left (they’re the red part) and the political wings of expansionist Islam (the green part) financed by a variety of Progressive billionaires and their “charitable” foundations...
rally marched through City Hall Park before groups of them descended on the bridges and tunnel, police said.
“You’re disrupting traffic, idiots!” a man in a maroon Honda shouted at the ralliers at one point as they blocked his car at an intersection.
“You can’t do that! It’s against the law,” he yelled at them — as another man filming the confrontation with his phone shouted, “Hit ’em all! Run ’em over!”
The driver then got out of his vehicle and shoved three of the protesters, warning them to stay away from his car as he screamed, “I have a daughter in Brooklyn! … I have to get home!”
The protesters eventually backed off.
The mayhem occurred after 10 a.m., when at least 40 demonstrators were on the Brooklyn Bridge, 12 on the Manhattan Bridge, 75 on the Williamsburg Bridge and dozens more within the Holland Tunnel, the NYPD said.
Video posted on X shows a group standing in front of the entrance to the tunnel holding signs demanding, “Lift the Siege of Gaza, Ceasefire Now,” as well as “End the Occupation, Free All Palestinian Prisoners, USA Stop Arming Israel.”
130 arrests
...that’s more than mere dozens...
were made at the Holland Tunnel by Port Authority Police and more at the bases of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge, according to law enforcement sources.
Suspects were handcuffed behind their backs with zip ties and corralled en masse onto an MTA bus near the mouth of the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan, photos show.
The bridge was reopened to traffic at around 10:45 a.m. and there were no signs of protesters around the entrance to the span or City Hall by 11 a.m.
Less than an hour? The enthusiasm is dying down. Now to see if the Manhattan DA will actually prosecute.
The article was updated to add more local colour and the following useful information:
The groups behind the protest included the New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America,
(Commies)
Jewish Voice for Peace
(Soros Foundations) and the Palestinian Youth Movement,
...one of a number of virulently anti-Israel protest groups sponsored by the Westchester People’s Action Coalition, they do intersectional stuff when not overtly acting against Israel)
[GEO.TV] At least four people, including two security personnel, were martyred and three others maimed in a firing on a passenger bus and a car in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Kurram District, Geo News reported Sunday.
According to District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Imran, armed assailants opened fire on the bus and car in the Sadda area which resulted in the deaths of four people.
The dead included two security personnel, a driver and a woman, said DPO Imran, adding that the police have launched a manhunt to arrest the attackers while security has been beefed up in the area.
"The armed attackers targeted two vehicles going from Parachinar to 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... ," said the DPO.
Last week, six barbers were kidnapped and murdered after which their bodies were dumped in a field in Mir Ali tehsil in North Wazoo tribal.
Local and official sources said that the bullet-riddled bodies of six men were found in the field in Muski village located in Mir Ali. They said that the initial investigation suggested that the victims had been rubbed out after being kidnapped.
The slain persons, the sources added, were all barbers, stated to be non-locals and had recently shifted to North Waziristan. They were running barber shops in Mir Ali Bazaar.
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[Rudaw] Iraq’s top military spokesperson on Sunday announced the killing of the military commander of 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.... (ISIS) in Diyala in an air operation a day prior, state media reported.
F-16 jets struck "important hideouts" of ISIS in a Diyala village on Saturday after the terror group tried to "destabilize security and create strife" in the province, Yehia Rasool, military spokesperson to Iraq’s prime minister, told state media.
"A security force went out this morning to search the targeted place and found four bodies of ISIS terrorist gang members and destroyed weapons and equipment ... among the dead was the so-called criminal soldier Majeed Mayouf, who is considered one of the most prominent ISIS leaders," Rasool said.
In December, a deadly ISIS attack in Diyala’s Muqdadiya district (known as Sharaban in Kurdish) left at least 10 civilians dead and 17 injured.
Targetting is easy. Actually hitting, as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis have all conclusively demonstrated, is much harder. In fact all of Iran’s catspaws are particularly bad at hitting what they aim at — one would think it a Shiite thing, but the Sunnis are just as bad. It makes one wonder how frightening an Iranian nuclear weapon would be in real life...
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[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on several Hezbollah targets in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... earlier today.
Troops struck a Hezbollah cell spotted near the southern Lebanese town of Marwahin, and fighter jets hit several buildings used by Hezbollah in Labbouneh, Majdal Zoun and Bint Jbeil, the IDF says.
It says that secondary explosions were seen in some of the buildings that were hit, indicating they were used as weapons depots.
The IDF also announces that last night, air defenses intercepted a "hostile aerial target" that entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon, near the northern community of Even Menachem.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF admits damage was caused to its air traffic control base on Mount Meron in a Hezbollah missile attack on Saturday.
Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets and anti-tank missiles at the base, which is some 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the 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... border, hitting two of the radar domes, footage published by the terror group showed.
The IDF does not elaborate on the damage to the base. But according to Hezbollah’s video, the radar domes were hit.
Still, the IDF says its air defense array continues to function, as there are backup systems.
The IDF is investigating the incident, in order to prevent similar attacks on the sensitive base.
[IsraelTimes] Army says dozens of bandidosforces of Evil killed, 100 targets struck in past day, including weapons caches and tunnels in Khan Younis; grandson of Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... founder Sheikh Yassin said killed
While a near-constant occurrence at the start of the war, rocket attacks on Israel 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... have partially faded away in recent weeks, though a barrage on central and southern Israel in the opening minutes of January 1 served as a reminder of the group’s remaining arsenal.
Rocket sirens rang out in two communities near the Strip late Sunday morning, with no reports of injuries or damage.
On Saturday, the army said it had completed the dismantlement of Hamas’s "military framework" in the northern Gaza Strip, including Gaza City, and was now shifting its attention to taking apart the terror group’s infrastructure in central and southern Gaza.
Israeli strikes pounded areas around Khan Younis and Rafah on Sunday, with reports of intensifying battles on the ground in the central and southern parts of the enclave.
The IDF said troops of the Kfir Brigade killed dozens of terror operatives and destroyed more than 100 Hamas targets in the Khan Younis area, including tunnels.
In one incident, the IDF said soldiers of the brigade operating in Bani Suheila, on the outskirts of Khan Younis, encountered a five-man Hamas cell and directed an aircraft to strike them.
After the shootout, the troops located and destroyed a site where the operatives were holed up, the IDF said.
In another area of Khan Younis, the IDF said, the Kfir soldiers found a large cache of weapons, including firearms, grenades, and explosives, some of which were hidden inside bags bearing the logo of UNRWA, the agency for Paleostinian refugees in the Strip.
The IDF said combat engineers working alongside the Kfir Brigade destroyed a Hamas command center used by the terror group to plan the October 7 onslaught.
Other Hamas targets destroyed by the troops included observation and anti-tank missile launch positions, tunnel shafts, and underground passages, the IDF stated.
The IDF also said strikes in central Gaza’s al-Bureij camp targeted members of Hamas’s elite Nukhba.
Troops of the Yiftah Reserve Brigade raided and later destroyed a tunnel network and the home of a senior 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... operative in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood, the army said.
In the eastern part of Shejaiya, the IDF said the reservists located a tunnel shaft belonging to Islamic Jihad, which led to an underground network. In the northern part of Shejaiya, the brigade located several tunnel shafts near the home of Ahmed Samara, who the IDF says is responsible for Islamic Jihad’s tunnels in northern Gaza.
In Samara’s home, the IDF said troops recovered several weapons, an Islamic Jihad instructional booklet, a tactical plan for the October 7 attack and a book about 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... While working to demolish the tunnels near Samara’s home, the IDF said button men opened fire and set off bombs inside the underground passages. It said troops spotted suspicious activity from inside the tunnel before the earth-shattering kaboom, retreated and called in artillery strikes.
Combat engineers later destroyed the tunnels, weapons and 12 buildings in the area above the underground network, some of which were booby-trapped, according to the IDF.
Hamas-controlled health authorities raised the corpse count from over 90 days of fighting to 22,835, though the figures could not be independently verified. The figure does not differentiate between civilians and combatants and includes Paleostinians killed by errant rocket fire from Gaza. Israel says it has killed 8,500 bandidosforces of Evil since launching the war.
JOURNALISTS KILLED
See separate post for more.
An Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on a car near Rafah in southern Gaza killed two Paleostinian journalists who were out reporting, the journalists’ union there said. Hamza Wael Dahdouh, the son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza correspondent Wael al-Dahdouh, and Mustafa Thuria, a video stringer for AFP who was working for Al Jazeera, both died in the strike in Rafah, the union said.
The IDF did not comment on the report.
In a separate strike, Ali Salem Abu Ajwa — the grandson of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was himself assassinated in a 2004 Israeli strike — was reported killed. The IDF did not comment on the report.
Perhaps peaceful members of the bloodline will be discovered to have survived after this is all over.
[IsraelTimes] Border Police officer lightly hurt; forces chase car, shoot dead occupants, but also kill 3-year-old in second vehicle.
Accuracy is much harder during real life than in video games or television shows.
Police said a Paleostinian child was mistakenly killed by security forces Sunday and a Border Police officer was lightly injured during a car-ramming attack at a checkpoint in East Jerusalem.
Video footage showed officers checking a van at the checkpoint and allowing it through before a second car accelerated into the Border Police officer, in her 20s.
According to police, the officer was lightly maimed. Footage then showed officers chasing after the second vehicle, opening fire and killing its occupants.
The three-year-old Paleostinian girl who was mistakenly killed by the gunfire was in the first car that had passed, police said, and added the incident was under further investigation.
The video appeared to show the first vehicle was in security forces’ line of fire as they shot at the attackers.
According to medics, the girl was critically injured by the gunfire and was declared dead at the scene a short while later.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said it took the injured officer to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center in good condition.
The Palestinian four-year-old girl who was killed by Israeli forces at a checkpoint near occupied East Jerusalem was named by her uncle as Ruqaya Ahmed Odeh Jahaleen, from the town of Beit Iksa.
[IsraelTimes] Forces launch manhunt, setting up roadblocks in Ramallah area following attack; victim identified as 33-year-old resident of Beit Hanina neighborhood.
An East Jerusalem man was shot to death in a West Bank terror attack north of Ramallah Sunday morning, as tensions in the restive territory continued to spiral.
Military forces launched a large manhunt for suspects and set up roadblocks around Ramallah following the shooting on Route 465 east of the Ateret settlement.
The Israel Defense Forces determined the deadly shooting was a terror attack, it said in a statement.
The victim was later identified by media as Amar Mansour, a 33-year-old resident and father of two from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina. In the footage, he could be seen slumped in the driver’s seat of a silver Volkswagen on the winding road, with several bullet holes punched through the windshield. He was declared dead at the scene, the Magen David Adom rescue service said.
A 42-year-old woman, a pharmacist at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center, was maimed in the attack after attending a Christmas celebration in Ramallah and was taken to a hospital in the city by passing Paleostinian medics. She was then transferred to Hadassah, where she is undergoing treatment for internal in her neck and face, the hospital said in a statement.
The shooting occurred between Ateret and the junction with Route 60, the West Bank’s main north-south artery, in an area named for an old British cop shoppe.
The shooting would appear to be the first deadly attack in the West Bank since November, though there have been a number of attempted attacks in that period. On December 31, two guards were maimed in a stabbing at the entrance to the Mishor Adumim industrial zone, during which the assailant managed to grab a semi-automatic rifle.
It was also the latest of a series of incidents outside the northern quadrant of the West Bank, where much of the violence has been concentrated in recent years. Army raids have largely focused on Jenin, Nablus and Tulkarem, where they have attempted to uproot terror movements that had gained footholds.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli security forces have reportedly nabbed three Paleostinian suspects in this morning’s West Bank terror attack north of Ramallah in which an East Jerusalem man was killed.
According to Hebrew media, forces made the three arrests overnight.
Ynet reports that the suspects are two physicians and a nurse from the West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] IDF helicopter strikes cell of Paleostinian button men hurling explosives at troops during attempt to evacuate maimed Border Police officers.
A Border Police officer was killed and three others maimed by a roadside kaboom, and seven Paleostinians were killed in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... during a raid overnight Saturday in the northern West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp.
Sgt. Shay Germay, 19, was in a vehicle hit by a roadside kaboom during the raid, along with three of her comrades. One was seriously maimed, while the other officers two were lightly hurt, according to Rambam Hospital in Haifa.
In a joint statement, the Israel Defense Forces and police said forces entered Jenin for a counterterrorism operation, when an bomb planted on the side of a road hit the Border Police vehicle.
The IDF said that during the evacuation of the maimed officers, an attack helicopter carried out an airstrike against a group of Paleostinian button men who were hurling explosives at troops.
"Six bad boyz were potted in the strike," the IDF said on Sunday morning.
The Paleostinian Authority health ministry said a total of seven people were killed in the strike, with one succumbing to his wounds later on Sunday.
A local wing of 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 attack on the Border Police vehicle.
Israeli troops have carried out dozens of raids in and around Jenin in recent months. Israel says that the PA has lost control of areas of the northern West Bank, allowing terror groups to entrench themselves and launch attacks on Israelis on both sides of the Green Line.
In mid-December, the IDF carried out a major 60-hour counterterrorism operation in Jenin and adjacent refugee camps, in which troops scanned hundreds of buildings, arrested 60 wanted Paleostinians, and seized 50 weapons and hundreds of bombs.
The military said the troops also found more than 10 tunnel shafts during the raid, along with seven labs used to manufacture bombs, and five war rooms used by local terror operatives to monitor IDF operations.
Violence in the West Bank has soared since Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ’s October 7 massacres.
Since October 7, troops have arrested more than 2,600 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,300 affiliated with Hamas. According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, some 300 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time.
Based on military estimates, the vast majority of those killed since October 7 were shot during festivities amid arrest raids.
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Palestinian Islamic Jihad shows roadside bomb attack on IDF convoy in Jenin, occupied West Bank.
An Israeli border police officer was killed and others were wounded in this ambush. pic.twitter.com/SyYFvWQymc
The border fence between Egypt and Gaza after the completion of the Egyptian works to thicken the defense against breaching the fence. pic.twitter.com/9FX2UnDWWv
Troops operating in Gaza City have discovered what the Israeli military says are technological equipment and components used by Hamas to build accurate missiles, a capability which until now the terror group was not believed to possess.
... The IDF says Nahal Brigade soldiers and special forces recently raided a Hamas site in the area of Gaza City’s Daraj and Tuffah neighborhoods, finding a tunnel shaft leading to an underground weapons manufacturing plant.
The soldiers found “components proving terrorists of the Hamas terror organization learned under Iranian guidance how to operate and build precise components and strategic weapons,” the IDF says.
The IDF shares images of what it says are the rocket engine and warhead of a cruise missile developed by Hamas.
Israeli soldiers 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... uncovered equipment being used by Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... to develop precision-guided missiles under Iranian tutelage, the military said Sunday. Such technology would represent a dangerous upgrade to the terror group’s weapons capabilities.
Troops discovered the guided-missile program while raiding a Hamas site near Gaza City’s Daraj and Tuffah neighborhoods, which led them to an underground weapons manufacturing plant.
Soldiers found "components proving bully boyz of the Hamas terror organization studied under Iranian guidance how to operate and build precision components and strategic weapons," the Israel Defense Forces said, sharing images of what it asserted was the rocket engine and warhead of a cruise missile developed by Hamas.
While vast, the terror group’s arsenal of projectiles has been thought to be primarily made up of unguided rockets, with only anti-tank guided missiles and small explosive drones — used at short range — possessing guided capabilities, along with explosives-laden underwater drones and shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles that are not effective against Israeli aircraft.
Israel has long accused 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... of attempting to export precision missile technology to its Lebanese proxy group Hezbollah, and has reportedly bombed weapons convoys in Syria to prevent such transfers. But the same concerns had not been thought to apply to Hamas, which has hounded Israel with tens of thousands of rocket attacks over the years.
Two more journalists killed after their vehicle is targeted in an Israeli air strike, including the son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh.
At least seven Palestinians killed in an Israeli drone attack on Jenin in the occupied West Bank; three-year-old girl killed by Israeli border police near occupied East Jerusalem.
At least 22,835 people have been killed — including 9,600 children — in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.
About 1,139 people were killed in Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.
(23:45 GMT) Here’s what happened today
We will be closing this live page soon. Here’s a recap of the day’s main developments:
Israeli forces kill Hamza Dahdouh – the son of Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh – and fellow journalist Mustafa Thuraya in an air raid in southern Gaza.
Al Jazeera condemns the attack, calling on the international community to hold Israel accountable and “demand an end to the targeting and killing of journalists”.
Israeli military chief Herzi Halevi says Israel will be fighting in Gaza all year.
Israeli officers shoot and kill a Palestinian toddler during what they said was a car-ramming attack in the occupied West Bank. The toddler was not in the vehicle involved in the incident.
An Israeli air attack kills at least seven Palestinians in Jenin after an explosive device kills an Israeli officer in the occupied West Bank city.
US Secretary of State Blinken visits Jordan and Qatar and stresses that displaced Palestinians must be able to return to their homes in Gaza.
Save the Children says more than 10 children lose limbs in Gaza every day.
(22:30 GMT) Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh returns to reporting hours after death of son Hamza
Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh has been reporting live from Khan Younis in southern Gaza, providing updates to viewers across the Arab world on the latest developments in the enclave, as Israel’s bombardment continues.
On Monday morning, Wael’s son Hamza, who also worked with Al Jazeera, was one of two journalists killed in an Israeli strike on the car they were travelling in.
Members of Wael’s family – including his wife Amna, another son, 15-year-old Mahmoud, his seven-year-old daughter Sham, and one-year-old grandchild Adam – were killed in an Israeli attack on the house they were staying in in October.
Wael himself was injured in an attack that killed his cameraman, Samer Abudaqa, but has refused to stop reporting.
(22:24 GMT) Israeli statement on killing journalists ‘doesn’t add up’
The Israeli army issued a statement responding to journalists who asked for comment all day from the Israeli army on why these journalists were targeted and killed inside of Gaza.
It says: “An Israeli military aircraft identified and struck a terrorist operative who was operating an aircraft that posed a threat to troops. We are aware of the reports that during the strike, two other suspects who were in the same vehicle as the terrorists were also hit.”
Just pay attention to this wording. They’re calling the journalists in the car “suspects”. We do know that third person in the car who was seriously injured was Hazem Rajab, a content creator and a journalist. If you go to his page, you can see that he operates a drone for photography purposes. And if the Israeli military is releasing this statement, they are also calling these journalists, all three of them, suspects.
It’s interesting that the Israeli military took several hours to respond to questions from journalists, just releasing this statement before midnight local time. But the Israeli military is going to have a lot of other questions to answer… because what they’re saying and what happened on the ground is not adding up.
(22:15 GMT) ‘Total dissonance’ in Blinken’s ‘sorry’ for Hamza Dahdouh: Analyst
Blinken had said he was “deeply sorry” about the “unimaginable loss” of Wael Dahdouh, whose son was killed in an Israeli attack.
“The total dissonance of being sorry about an outcome that you have actively enabled at every stage,” Middle East expert Khaled Elgindy wrote in a social media post addressing Blinken’s comments.
About the dead Al Jazeera journalists, the Times of Israel emphasizes that they were in a car with a jihadi operating a drone, so it was a legitimate kill, an idea Al Jazeera naturally pooh-poohs. Link
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What the article might have missed is that the two 'journalists' were travelling in the same car as a wanted Hamas Drone Operator.
And it is about time. The palestinians frequently use this tactic to move freely across the territories by catching rides with Journalists or Red Cross/Crescent or UNRWA.
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What the article might have missed is that the two 'journalists' were travelling in the same car as a wanted Hamas Drone Operator.
From Al Jazeera:
We do know that third person in the car who was seriously injured was Hazem Rajab, a content creator and a journalist. If you go to his page, you can see that he operates a drone for photography purposes. And if the Israeli military is releasing this statement, they are also calling these journalists, all three of them, suspects.
They blithely ignore that the drone operator is a wanted man. I suspect that a little digging would reveal that all three miscreants are double dipping as Hamas (or other) jihadis, and probably for all three Hamas, et al is the primary and original employment, Al Jazeera being the side gig where at least part of their value is their jihadi connections that will get them to the action much faster than the usual journalist-outsider.
[NYPost] BEIRUT, Jan 8 — An Israeli strike on south Lebanon on Monday killed a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force, three security sources told Reuters.
The security sources identified him as Wissam al-Tawil, the deputy head of a unit within the Radwan force.
They said he and another Hezbollah terrorist were killed when their car was hit in a strike on the Lebanese village of Majdal Selm.
"This is a very painful strike," one of the security sources said. Another said, "things will flare up now."
Israeli bombardment has killed more than 130 Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon since cross-border shelling began in the aftermath of Hamas’s attack on Israeli territory on Oct. 7.
Another 19 have been killed in Syria.
Hezbollah’s secretary-general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel in two televised addresses last week not to launch a full-scale war on Lebanon.
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