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Houthis announce strike on two US destroyers in the Red Sea
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Good Morning


Report finds 52% of recent college grads working in fast food, retail and other 'underemployed' jobs
03/06/2024

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Video of Hamas stealing food aid trucks
Caribbean-Latin America
Haiti gangs try to take control of main
AIRPORT and are 'massacring people indiscriminately'
Great White North
NAZI Salute by pro-HAMAS protesters near Holocaust Museum
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel destroys largest Hamas tunnel
found yet, nabs gunmen hiding among civilians
Africa Horn
US military confirms Al-Shabaab
members killed in Somalia airstrike
Africa Horn
Kenyan police kill 5 al-Shabab terrorists in border region
Alabama mother Mahogany Jackson was stripped, tortured and forced to perform sex acts on gang of four men and four women before being shot in back of the head in sickening kidnapping and murder that they filmed, cops say

Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2024 14:15 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [48 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You can't make that not funny.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/06/2024 14:36 Comments || Top||

#2  baby elephant
hunting elusive peanut
remembers mum, snaps
Posted by: Alistaire tse Tung6530 || 03/06/2024 20:14 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Four in custody as more body parts discovered scattered on LI ‐ after 2 heads found: sources
[NY Post] Four people were in custody after severed body parts of a man and woman were found scattered on Long Island last week — as authorities unearthed more remains, sources told The Post.

The collars came Tuesday, after cops raided a home on Railroad Avenue in Amityville
…like The Amityville Horror? Oh dear…
late Monday evening, sources and neighbors said.

Although cops didn’t find any human remains at the home, they found more dismembered limbs hidden in Bethpage State Park and miles away in a wooded area of West Babylon, the Suffolk County Police Department said in a statement Tuesday.

Authorities believe the newly-discovered remains belong to the same two people whose body parts were uncovered Feb. 29 in Southards Pond Park in Babylon, the release said.

Cops haven’t publicly identified the victims, but said in the release that the assortment of limbs belong to a 59-year-old woman and a 53-year-old man, both of whom lived at the same address in the city of Yonkers in Westchester County.

"Based on the investigation, this appears to be an isolated incident with no threat to the public," the release added. "The investigation is continuing. "
"strangest murder - suicide I've ever seen, Murphy"
Police did not mention a possible motive for the killings.

But sources told NBC New York that authorities are looking into whether the murders were linked to a possible love triangle.
Is that And MS-13 or instead of MS-13?
The first body part was found Thursday morning by a girl walking to school with a group of friends on Siegal Boulevard — which is on the east side of Southards Park in Babylon, Suffolk County.

On Monday night, battering ram-wielding officers busted through the front door of one of the units on Railroad Ave sometime around 10:30 p.m., a neighbor told The Post.

"There were detectives and police going into my neighbor’s house, so I came over to see what was happening," she said. "They had bashed in the door, and there were a bunch of people standing inside the house, cops talking to my neighbors. They had already taken some people away."

She said she doesn’t know much about the neighbors in question, except that they’re renters who work nights and brought a number of occupants with them.

"Cops were here all night," she told The Post. "I watched as long as I could stay awake, and when I woke up in the morning, they were all still here.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [33 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  ...I would have thought that the Post would have been a bit more playful with the headline. After all, they were the ones who printed HEADLESS BODY FOUND IN TOPLESS BAR.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 03/06/2024 6:49 Comments || Top||

#2 
Sad to say...
But I can imagine the NY DA dropping the charges to litering.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/06/2024 10:30 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
US military confirms Al-Shabaab members killed in Somalia airstrike
[ShabelleMedia] At the request of the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted a collective self-defense against the al Shabaab terrorist group on Mar. 2.

The collective self-defense airstrike occurred in a remote area in the vicinity approximately 45 km northeast of Kismayo.

The initial post-strike assessment indicates that the U.S. airstrike killed two al-Shabaab terrorists and that no civilians were harmed.

U.S. Africa Command will continue to assess the results of this airstrike and will provide additional information as appropriate. Specific details about the units involved and assets used will not be released to ensure operational security.

Al Shabaab has proved both its will and capability to attack U.S. forces and threaten U.S. security interests. U.S. Africa Command, alongside its partners, continues to take action to prevent this malicious terrorist group from planning and conducting attacks in the region, which disproportionately harms civilians.

Somalia remains key to the security environment in East Africa. U.S. Africa Command’s forces will continue training, advising, and equipping partner forces to give them the tools that they need to degrade al Shabaab.

U.S. Africa Command, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, with partners, counters malign actors and transnational threats, responds to crises, and strengthens security forces to advance U.S. national interests and promote regional security, stability, and prosperity.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2024 2024-03-06 01:46 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [44 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Kenyan police kill 5 al-Shabab terrorists in border region
[ShabelleMedia] Kenyan police on Saturday killed five al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
murderous Moslems and arrested four others in a security operation in Garissa County near the border with Somalia.
Garissa County, Kenya is a busy place, full of Shaboobs looking for a quieter area to enjoy the pleasures of jihad now that the Somali army is getting more serious about rooting them out.
The police said the four suspects were arrested from their hideout in the Fafi area where the security forces recovered two PKM machine guns, six AK47 rifles, and several improvised bombs making materials.

According to the security report, "the four are being interrogated and are cooperating well with the police."

The intelligence-led operation caught the snuffies by surprise as they crossed into Kenya and established a temporary camp in the Fafi area of Garissa.

The operation was launched after the police foiled plans by the snuffies to set up a base in Mangai, Lamu County in the coastal region on Wednesday and destroyed their cell. The police said a significant number of bad boyz were potted and that the cell was in the last stages of orchestrating a reinforced ambush targeting security forces in the area.

The police said al-Shabaab is using the Lamu area as a logistics base to attack local targets and retreat.
Good to know.
They have thwarted several planned attacks in the country, mostly in the northern region, which had been experiencing a lull in terms of terror attacks. The area is near the Somalia border, and the snuffies usually cross at will and stage attacks before escaping back.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2024 2024-03-06 01:44 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [63 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Somali army continues anti-al Shabab Ops in Jubland for 3rd day
[ShabelleMedia] The Somali army with the support of Jubaland regional troops carry out an Operation for the third day in a row in the Lower Jubba region.

The joint forces killed 35 members of al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
in the areas of Musa Haji, Malaylay, Turdho, Bahar Saaf, and other areas where al-Shabaab was manning key bases.

A statement issued by the Federal Government of Somalia said that the members killed in the operation included Somali and foreign leaders and other militias.

"The army entered the enemy’s hiding places in those areas and killed 35 leaders and militias, including Somalis and foreigners," said the statement issued by the Federal Government of Somalia.

Some of the leaders who were killed were named Saadiq, who is the head of al-Shabaab intelligence, the leader of the earth-shattering kabooms in charge of the group, whose name was Abdiqani, and another leader whose position was not announced, whose name was Jabir, who was born in Kenya.

The forces of the Somali government and the Jubbaland administration have been carrying out heavy operations in the Lower Jubba region for the last few days to free the al-Shabaab group from the areas where the group is located.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2024 2024-03-06 01:38 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [24 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Arabia
Houthis claim targeting 'Israeli ship MSC SKY' in Arabian Sea, but akshully it’s Swiss
[GEO.TV] 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...
military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said on Monday the Iran-aligned group had targeted the "Israeli ship MSC SKY" in the Arabian sea.

Houthi have repeatedly launched drones and missiles against international commercial shipping since mid-November, saying they are acting in solidarity with Paleostinians against Israel's military actions 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...
Their Red Sea attacks have disrupted global shipping, forcing firms to re-route to longer and more expensive journeys around southern Africa, and stoked fears that the Israel-Hamas
...always the voice of sweet reason...
war could spread to destabilise the wider Middle East.

"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 carried out a targeting operation against an Israeli ship MSC SKY in the Arabian Sea with a number of suitable naval missiles, and the hit was accurate and direct," Sarea said in a televised speech.
The Times of Israel says it’s a Swiss ship:
[IsraelTimes] The US Central Command says an anti-ship ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets rebels hit the container vessel M/V MSC SKY II in the Gulf of Aden causing "damage."

"Initial reports indicate there were no injuries; the ship did not request assistance and continued on its way," Centcom adds in a statement released on Tuesday.

A second missile fired by the Houthis missed the Liberian-flagged ship, owned by Swiss shipping giant MSC, Centcom says.

The container ship was traveling from Singapore, according to marine tracking data, which shows its last location as some 120 kilometers (80 miles) from the port of Aden in Yemen.

The attack, at around 4 a.m. Sanaa time, came about two hours after another missile was fired into the southern Red Sea, the military says.

It adds that the US Navy conducted "self-defense strikes against two anti-ship cruise missiles that presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and U.S. Navy ships in the region."

In January, MSC said it was not transiting the Red Sea due to danger to its vessels.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2024 2024-03-06 00:13 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [30 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  "...Whadda we know from Swiss?? If they're breathing and they ain't us, they're Zionists!"

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 03/06/2024 9:12 Comments || Top||


Yemen's Houthis announce a strike on two US destroyers in the Red Sea
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Two American naval destroyers attacked the Ansar Allah movement that rules northern Yemen in the Red Sea. This was announced on March 5 by the military representative of the movement, Yahya Saria, on the social network H.

It is clarified that the naval forces, missile forces and air force of Yemen attacked American destroyers with the help of several anti-ship missiles and drones. A Houthi spokesman called the military operation unique.

Saria stressed that the Houthis, if necessary, can expand operations against hostile targets and will continue them until the siege on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is lifted and “American-British aggression does not stop.”

Earlier, Regnum reported that the US military was able to intercept two anti-ship cruise missiles over the Red Sea. US Central Command (CENTCOM) indicated that the missiles posed an immediate threat to commercial and US Navy ships in the region.

On March 2, CENTCOM announced a strike against a ready-to-launch Houthi surface-to-air missile in Yemen. According to the US military, the missile was aimed at the Red Sea.

The day before, the Yemeni state agency SABA reported that the British cargo ship Rubymar, attacked by the Houthis on February 19, sank in the Red Sea. The US military confirmed on March 3 that a British cargo ship attacked by the Ansar Allah movement in the Gulf of Aden was damaged and sank; the ship was sailing under the flag of Belize.

The ruling Houthi rebel movement in northern Yemen, Ansar Allah, controls most of Yemen's Red Sea coast. As the Middle East conflict escalated, the Houthis began attacking ships associated with Israel, causing a sharp decline in shipping traffic through the Suez Canal.

More from regnum.ru
US intercepts two cruise missiles in the Red Sea

The US military was able to intercept two anti-ship cruise missiles over the Red Sea. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced this on March 5 on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

“At 20:00 (Moscow time), CENTCOM forces carried out two self-defense strikes against two anti-ship cruise missiles that posed a direct threat to commercial and US Navy ships in the region,” the report said.

It is noted that, according to the command, in the period from 15:50 to 16:15, the rebel Yemeni movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) launched two anti-ship cruise missiles at a container ship flying the flag of Liberia. One of the missiles hit the ship and caused damage, but no one was injured as a result. After the incident, the container ship did not request assistance and continued on its course.

As Regnum reported, on March 2, CENTCOM announced a strike on a Houthi surface-to-air missile ready for launch in Yemen. According to the US military, the missile was aimed at the Red Sea.

Earlier in the day, the Yemeni state agency SABA reported that the British cargo ship Rubymar, attacked by the Houthis on February 19, sank in the Red Sea. The US military confirmed on March 3 that a British cargo ship attacked by the Ansar Allah movement in the Gulf of Aden sank in the Red Sea. It was noted that the ship was flying the flag of Belize.

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [61 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  Mohamed Hadid: We will hunt down ‘Zionist criminals’ like Biden for court
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/06/2024 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Good that the world's retail fleet is taking the Hootie pressure off Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/06/2024 4:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Can the Panama Canal save itself?

"The number of vessels has been slashed from an average of 36 to 24. Each ship is also carrying less cargo now because of weight restrictions.

The slowdown spells trouble for global trade."
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/06/2024 6:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Panama Canal example of letting natives run first world equipment
Posted by: Spats B. Hayes8168 || 03/06/2024 10:36 Comments || Top||

#5  yemen is a distraction. iran is the enemy. occupy chah badar.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 03/06/2024 11:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Eventually they will manage to damage an USNS, and that will Biden admin do then?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/06/2024 12:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Fatalities, burn wounds in Houthi attack on commercial ship
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/06/2024 12:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Panama Canal example of letting natives run first world equipment

You're referring to the rain making machinery?

China Doesn’t Own the Panama Canal, but Does Have a Lot of Control
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/06/2024 12:44 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Haiti gangs try to take control of main AIRPORT and are 'massacring people indiscriminately'
[DM]
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/06/2024 06:02 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [52 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Well, I hope it all works out for them. Good luck.
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 03/06/2024 10:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Is it really indiscriminate if they are killing everyone who is not part of the gang?

I'm going to guess this is not the airport Conan O'Brian or Bill Clinton fly into.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/06/2024 11:39 Comments || Top||

#3  I deplore UN's silence!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/06/2024 12:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Gotta get on the planes to Miami and Atlanta!
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/06/2024 15:52 Comments || Top||

#5  That's pretty sad, maybe the Haitians should do something about it.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/06/2024 16:38 Comments || Top||

#6  The Clintons have a solution for all this.
Posted by: KBK || 03/06/2024 19:21 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Five prisoners of the Kalmyk colony were convicted in the “prison jamaat” case
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced five natives of Dagestan accused in the case of a terrorist community in a Kalmyk colony to long prison terms.

According to the press service of the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, Islam Israilov and Magomed Magomedov were sentenced to eight years in a special regime colony. Merden Merdenov - to seven years in a maximum security colony, Akhmed Shamsudinov - to nine years and six months in a maximum security colony, Arsen Misrikhanov - to seven years and three months in a maximum security colony.

All five were found guilty of participating in a terrorist community created in one of the colonies in Kalmykia, Interfax cited a press service report today.
Some more of that hundred-strong group of Caucasus Emirate jihadis who swore allegiance to ISIS while in prison who show up here when it is their turn for sentencing by the Russian courts.
According to the case materials, in 2013, a terrorist community banned in Russia was created on the territory of a correctional institution in Kalmykia. The five defendants became its active participants - they delved into its ideology, attended lectures, and also studied extremist materials.

There were no comments from representatives of the convicted persons.

According to the telegram channel “Updating the list of terrorists and extremists,” which publishes updates to the Rosfinmonitoring list, which contains the names of people involved in terrorism and extremism, the Israilovs, Magomedovs, Merdenovs, Shamsudinovs and Misrikhanovs are natives of Dagestan.

The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on November 30, 2023, it became known that a court in Rostov-on-Don found seven residents of southern Russia guilty of participating in a terrorist cell in a Kalmyk colony and sentenced them to terms of eight to 11 years in prison .

Let us recall that, according to investigators, no later than 2013, a native of Dagestan, who was serving a sentence in Kalmyk penal colony No. 2, created a terrorist organization in the colony, and it subsequently included more than 100 prisoners. Investigators named Shakhban Gasanov,
…sometimes transliterated as Shabhan Hasanov, erstwhile emir of the Kizlyar group of Emarat Kavkaz/Imarat Kavkaz, or in English the Caucasus Emirate. Originally an Al Qaeda franchise, they subsequently swore allegiance to ISIS under the name Caucasus Province (Vilayat Kavkaz), though nobody bothers to remember the name change. Russia has been hunting down Caucasian Emirate jihadis for three decades, no doubt a factor in thousands of members and their families making hijra to the rebellion in Syria — where they’re known for their nastiness in a region where nastiness is the norm — some to Al Nusra, some to ISIS, while others were adopted by Turkey (that whole Turkic peoples thingy). Oddly enough, when the Tsarnaev brothers blew up the Boston Marathon, the rump home office denied responsibility as they were not making war on America (“Please don’t hurt us!”)...
who was killed in 2015 in Khasavyurt, as the organizer of the terrorist community. The head of correctional colony No. 2, Pavel Bataev, and his former deputy, Artur Tsamaev, were also detained  on suspicion of patronizing a terrorist community for a reward.

Analysts interviewed by the Caucasian Knot previously expressed the opinion that information about a terrorist network in the Kalmyk colony is similar to a PR campaign by security forces.
Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [34 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Great White North
NAZI Salute by pro-HAMAS protesters near Holocaust Museum
[Twitter] They like calling Jews/Israelis Nazis, but what they really want is to finish the job the Nazis started. Besides, many of them are Black Bloc anarcho-communist syndicalists (Antifa/BLM) making common cause with the Islamists. The Black Blockers hate Jews/Israel as white colonialist oppressor, bourgeois capitalists, while the Islamists hate them for being Jews — but both agree that whatever the reason, all the Jews should be killed. It’s all entiely derivative, and utterly boring.


I’m not sure, but the tweet above might be referencing a protest in front of the Toronto Holocaust Museum in North York. Lots of hate going on up in Canada - scroll through the poster’s entire thread to get the idea.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/06/2024 02:34 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [53 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  And then there's the Canadian parliament...just sayin'.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/06/2024 4:01 Comments || Top||

#2  If you assume that UN is secretly run by Nazis - in which way you'd expect their policies in Arab-Israeli conflict to be different?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/06/2024 4:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Everyone knows you have to wear a MAGA hat to be a nazi...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2024 6:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Punch A Nazi!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/06/2024 10:53 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Video of Hamas stealing food aid trucks
[Twitter]


… "The aid is for us. The leftovers is for the people. We will use brutal force if anyone tries to take it from us."
Posted by: 3dc || 03/06/2024 06:20 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [45 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


#2  Billions March for Rafah" in Washington DC
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/06/2024 10:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Just like every other 3rd world dictatorship and military.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/06/2024 13:37 Comments || Top||

#4  This is a surprise to anyone??
Posted by: OregonDave || 03/06/2024 19:56 Comments || Top||


Israel destroys largest Hamas tunnel found yet, nabs gunmen hiding among civilians
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces announced Tuesday that it had completed destroying and sealing the largest Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
attack tunnel found 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...
, which the military initially revealed in December during its offensive against the Paleostinian terror group.

In recent weeks, the IDF said, it worked to complete its investigation of the tunnel and then destroy it. The large passage was part of Hamas’s vast network of tunnels under Gaza, which the IDF has been working to uncover during the ongoing war that began with the terror group’s devastating October 7 attack on Israel.

Parts of the tunnel were blown up by combat engineers, with the IDF and Defense Ministry later pumping concrete into the remaining underground passages.

The tunnel, of which around four kilometers (2.5 miles) were uncovered by the IDF, goes down some 50 meters (165 feet) underground in some areas and appeared to have been wide enough for vehicles to pass through. It did not enter Israeli territory, but officials described it as designed for use in attacks rather than as a defensive position or for use in transporting officials.

One of the shafts was found just 400 meters (a quarter mile) from the Erez Crossing, which until Hamas’s October 7 onslaught facilitated the movement of Paleostinian civilians into Israel for work and medical care.

The IDF said the tunnel project was led by Muhammad Sinwar, the commander of Hamas’s southern brigade, and brother of Hamas’s Gaza leader, Yahya Sinwar.

In its December announcement, the military released footage obtained from the Gaza Strip showing Muhammad Sinwar in a car driving through the tunnel.

The destruction of the tunnel came as the IDF continued to battle against Hamas fighters amid a dire humanitarian crisis for the 2.3 million Paleostinians in Gaza caught up in the war, with the World Health Organization saying malnutrition in northern Gaza is "particularly extreme."

The IDF said its 98th Division, operating at the Hamad Town residential complex in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, captured dozens of terror operatives over the past day.

The division’s Commando Brigade had been raiding Hamas sites in the neighborhood, where troops seized a large amount of weapons.

The military said in a statement that over the past day, troops facilitated the evacuation of civilians from the area, during which the soldiers nabbed dozens of Hamas and 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 operatives who tried to flee with the civilians. The IDF has in the past reported similar incidents of Hamas fighters concealing themselves among fleeing civilians, underlining Israel’s accusations that the terror group embeds within the civilian population, using them as human shields, and increasing the casualties among non-combatants.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point...
in central Gaza, the IDF said the Nahal Infantry Brigade killed some 20 button men over the past day, including with sniper fire and by calling in tank shelling and Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
In northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, the IDF said troops called in an airstrike against a Hamas cell operating a drone against soldiers.

Across Gaza, the Israeli Air Force carried out strikes against more than 50 Hamas targets over the past day, the statement said. The targets included rocket launching positions, weapon depots, tunnel shafts, and other infrastructure.

Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said that 97 people in the Strip were killed over the past day, raising the toll since the war started to 30,631 Paleostinians. It said that a further 72,043 have been injured. The numbers cannot be verified and do not differentiate between combatants and civilians. They are thought to include those killed by errant Paleostinian fire within the Strip.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2024 2024-03-06 01:46 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [54 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Hamass is waiting until RAMAdAM in hopes that other Musclemen might join them. So...the question is what happens Jerusalem in first day in Ramadan? Many years ago I was there on the first day... Solders protected people at the wailing wall and allowed y them to go up the ramp to their temple. We unbelievers were pushed down the street with elbows. Women on the right and men on the left. Many people lost their sandals but could not stop to pick them up.
Posted by: Old Salty || 03/06/2024 16:11 Comments || Top||

#2  There is no Jewish Temple at the Wailing Wall or on the Temple Mount, Old Salty. The wall is all that is left of the support structure for the platform, and the bare platform is all that is left of the Temple that King Herod rebuilt. The Al Aqsa Mosque is for the Moslems — as far as I am aware it’s the only structure up there..
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2024 22:21 Comments || Top||


West Bank mother released in November hostage deal re-arrested, Palestinians say
hIsraelTimes] Official Paleostinian news outlet Wafa says several people have been arrested by Israeli troops in the town of Kobar
…a village near Ramallah
overnight, including Hanan Barghouti, a 59-year-old mother released from Israeli detention in November as part of a deal to free hostages held by Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
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...
Five others, most of them members of the extended Barghouti clan, are also arrested during a raid on the Ramallah-area town, Wafa says.

Hanan Barghouti had been the oldest detainee released by Israel in November, according to the Ynet news site. Upon her release, she was recorded waving a Hamas flag and praising the terror group and claimed to defiantly dismiss a warning she would be re-arrested.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2024 2024-03-06 01:24 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [25 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Probably preferes Israeli prison to living with her dear children. Lots of them see it as a resort.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/06/2024 2:21 Comments || Top||


Israel carries out biggest Ramallah raid in years, witnesses say
[GEO.TV] Israeli forces swept into the Paleostinians' administrative capital of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank overnight, killing a 16-year-old in a refugee camp during their biggest raid into the city in years, Paleostinian sources said on Monday.

Witnesses in Ramallah said Israeli forces had driven dozens of military vehicles into the city, which is the headquarters of the Paleostinian Authority led by President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
The Paleostinian health ministry said Israeli forces shot and killed 16-year-old Mustafa Abu Shalbak while raiding Am'ari refugee camp.

The Paleostinian news agency WAFA said confrontations broke out as Israeli forces stormed the camp, "during which live bullets were fired at Paleostinian youths", wounding Abu Shalbak in the neck and chest.

The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Violence has surged across the West Bank in parallel to the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
war, as Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed 400 Paleostinians. Israel regularly raids Paleostinian areas across the territory it occupied in 1967.

Israeli forces also tore up a main road in the West Bank city of Tulkarm during a raid there, witnesses said.

WAFA also reported that Israeli forces had stormed the West Bank city of Nablus, and blew up the home of a man previously accused by Israel of carrying out an attack in which a British-Israeli mother and her two daughters were killed in April in the West Bank.

The man, Moaz al-Masri, was killed by Israeli forces in Nablus last May.

Israeli forces detained at least 55 Paleostinians in raids across the West Bank overnight, according to The Paleostinian Prisoners Club.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2024 2024-03-06 00:15 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [33 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Israeli man injured in stabbing attack in northern West Bank
IDF troops at Yitzhar junction on Route 60 eliminated the terrorist, a 16-year-old Palestinian teen; victim is in serious condition
Another 16 years old. Like so many Palestinian children killed by Zionists.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/06/2024 1:22 Comments || Top||


#3  ^Some people are born to be hanged?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/06/2024 6:17 Comments || Top||


'Kids' limbs being amputated without anesthetic': UNRWA chief says Gaza sufferings impossible to adequately describe
This is what happens when you support a society that gets its jollies starting the war they’ve been practicing for all their lives, and then they refuse to stop fighting. UNWRA owns what’s happening to those kids, too.
[GEO.TV] UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has apprised the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
General Assembly that UNRWA was in "uncharted territory" with "serious" consequences for global and regional security if more funding was not obtained.
More funding will just make the problem worse. They won’t even contemplate changing their ways so long as the UN and the world enable them to continue to be a knife held to Israel’s throat.
Lazzarini said it was impossible to adequately describe the suffering 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...
as doctors were amputating limbs of children without anesthetic. He said over 100 people were killed a few days ago while desperately seeking food.
Starving because the Hamas big turbans are hoarding supplies in what’s left of their accessible tunnels so they turned on each other in their desperation to bring something home to their families, while Hamas gunnies shot at them — not that UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini cares.
Whereas, babies, just a few months old, were dying of malnutrition and dehydration, he said.

"The corpse count in Gaza is staggering. More than 30,000 Paleostinians have reportedly been killed in just 150 days; 5% of the population is dead, injured or missing. It is impossible to adequately describe the suffering in Gaza," the UNRWA chief said.
Next time don’t start a war with Israel.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2024 2024-03-06 00:12 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [31 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Good. Maybe they'll learn not to murder Jews.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/06/2024 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  UN Special Rapporteur 'unaware' of rocket attacks on Israel
Reem Alsalem, who claimed to not have seen enough evidence to prove Hamas committed atrocities on Oct. 7, coauthored a report accusing the IDF of rape and kidnapping Palestinian babies.

Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/06/2024 1:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Incidentaly, 200+ "Humanitarian" Aid every day - but no medicines?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/06/2024 4:13 Comments || Top||

#4  RETRO
Facing an Enemy that Wields Kids as Weapons

Posted by: Skidmark || 03/06/2024 4:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Israel reveals 12 UNRWA staffers it says took part in Oct. 7, says 30 more assisted

Little Philippe begins to worry about losing his phony-baloney job? Wrong thing to worry about Philippe - we Jews have very good memory.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/06/2024 4:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Incidentaly, 200+ "Humanitarian" Aid every day - but no medicines?

Israel: We Delivered 5,580 Tons of Aid to Gaza on Monday Alone


Yeah. Your people should get right on that.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/06/2024 4:32 Comments || Top||

#7  ^Hey, maybe Biden's aerial aid* includess some of the (don't say Chinese!) opiates your DEA captured.

*Incidentally, parachute silk is a very valuable commodity. I expect to hear about an extensive trade in it between Gazans and Egyptians. I'd hope for Gazans bribing Egyptian border guards to allow passage, but - given the circumstences - it'll most likely be silk for ammo.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/06/2024 4:41 Comments || Top||

#8  "Kids" is that like the adult children that Donks count up to age 23?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/06/2024 6:45 Comments || Top||

#9  I don't think they make parachutes with silk anymore, Seems they use a form of Dacron nowadays

From Wikipedia:
"A parachute is usually made of a light, strong fabric. Early parachutes were made of silk. The most common fabric today is nylon. A parachute's canopy is typically dome-shaped, but some are rectangles, inverted domes, and other shapes."
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 03/06/2024 7:04 Comments || Top||

#10  /\ Correct, but the old term 'hitting the silk' still applies.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/06/2024 7:21 Comments || Top||

#11  Incidentaly, 200+ "Humanitarian" Aid every day - but no medicines?

As was we've seen the Hamas folks intercepting the 'Aid Trucks', perhaps the medical supplies have been retained by them too.

A very old way of keeping the local population under control. "You'll get nothing unless we give it to you."
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/06/2024 7:25 Comments || Top||

#12  perhaps the medical supplies have been retained by them too.

Or, perhaps - just perhaps, Philippe is lying?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/06/2024 10:08 Comments || Top||

#13  Correct, but the old term 'hitting the silk' still applies.

Thought that was bed sheets?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/06/2024 13:58 Comments || Top||


3 killed, several injured in Israeli air strikes on home, refugee camp
[GEO.TV] The Israeli forces killed three Palestinians and injured an unknown number of others in an overnight attack on the home of the Al-Attar family in the city of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, reported Wafa news agency.

Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp was also bombed by the Israeli artillery and fighter planes overnight.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2024 2024-03-06 00:08 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [30 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Hezbollah launches a massive rocket barrage from Lebanon against northern Israel, accomplishes nothing
…though there was a pretty light show.


Hezbollah fires heavy rocket barrage at Kiryat Shmona after IDF strikes in Lebanon

[IsraelTimes] Terror group says volley of 30 projectiles a response to civilian deaths in Israeli airstrike; indirect negotiations to end hostilities due to begin during Ramadan

The Lebanese Hezbollah terror group fired a large barrage of rockets at the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona on Tuesday evening, in what it said was a response to a deadly Israel Defense Forces Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
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...
earlier in the day.According to the IDF, some 30 rockets were fired at Kiryat Shmona, with at least 10 of the projectiles being successfully intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system.

One rocket struck the yard of a home in the nearby community of Kfar Blum, causing minor damage, local authorities said.

The remainder of the rockets hit open areas, and there were no reports of injuries.

Sirens sounded in Kiryat Shmona and several nearby communities.

Hezbollah grabbed credit for the barrage, saying it was in response to an IDF strike in the southern Lebanon village of Houla, which killed three civilians according to the terror group and media reports.

In response, the IDF said fighter jets struck a Hezbollah rocket launching position in southern Lebanon’s Taybeh, from which the terror group fired a barrage at Kiryat Shmona this evening.

Additionally, an anti-tank missile launch position in Aarab El Louaizeh, also used in attacks on Kiryat Shmona, was struck by an aircraft, the IDF says. Earlier, the IDF says it struck a building used by Hezbollah in Dibbine, and additional infrastructure in Ayta ash-Shab.

Earlier, the IDF said it had carried out strikes in Houla on Tuesday afternoon, targeting a building used by Hezbollah.

Strikes were also carried out against a Hezbollah compound in Ayta ash-Shab that the IDF said was used to fire two anti-tank missiles at the Biranit army base, a Hezbollah command center in Jabal al-Batam, rocket launching positions in Matmoura, and additional buildings used by the terror group in Majdal Zoun and Kafra, according to the IDF.

Those strikes came following an earlier Hezbollah barrage on Kiryat Shmona, which caused damage to a home and a store, and numerous missile and rocket attacks on IDF positions along the Lebanon border. There were no reports of injuries in the attacks.

Posted by: 3dc || 03/06/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [33 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


#2  Within thirty days of Israel declaring that Gaza is free of Hamas its forces well enter Lebanon. Action to clear area south of Litani River will ensue. Bet on it.
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 || 03/06/2024 6:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Let's call these attacks what they really are, both Hezbolla and Houthis. Attacks by Iran.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/06/2024 9:50 Comments || Top||



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