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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas said to execute leader of Gaza’s powerful Doghmush clan; Doghmushes declare vendetta

2024-03-15

See also here.

[IsraelTimes] Clan leader reportedly killed in family’s compound, allegedly for stealing humanitarian aid for resale and suspected ties to Israel

Hamas
Hamas

...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
reportedly killed the leader of the powerful Doghmush clan

Goodness! It’s been quite a while since we’ve heard from the Doghmushes, and now they’ve gone and got themselves killed, probably due to a perceived threat to Hamas…

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...
City, because the group allegedly had been stealing humanitarian aid and was suspected of having contact with Israel.

Under the circumstances, I imagine that anyone who can muster enough of a threat is doing the same. That’s how low trust/high clannishness (Me-and-my-brother-against-my-cousin) societies work.

Unconfirmed reports on Arab media said that the clan leader, who was not named, was "executed" in the family compound along with two others.

Earlier this week, a Hamas-linked website warned Paleostinian individuals and groups against cooperating with Israel to provide security for aid convoys amid the spiraling humanitarian crisis in Gaza as war rages between Israel and Hamas.

“Do not dare to protect your robberies against the rampaging Hamas minions, lest we fall upon you like wolves on the fold. Inshallah, Allah will curse all your mustaches for even thinking of self-protection against the most-beloved of the King of Lies.”

Those who did would be treated as collaborators and handled with an iron fist, the Hamas al-Majd security website said, quoting a security official in Paleostinian terror forces.

A less picturesque way to describe it, but conseiderably more succinct.

The warning came in response to reports that Israel was considering arming some Paleostinian individuals or clans in Gaza to provide security protection for aid convoys entering the enclave as part of wider planning for humanitarian supplies after the fighting ends.

Doghmush is a large, armed clan that has clashed with Hamas in the past and has a history of engaging in organized crime as well as arms trading. It leads the Army of Islam terror group and is allied with al-Qaeda.

A matter of faith or merely an alliance of convenience?

It kidnapped and held British journalist Alan Johnston from March to July 2007, and was also reportedly involved in the kidnapping of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit in 2006.

The Doghmush clan is based in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City and in Sabra in western Gaza, the Ynet website reported.

Despite the recent reports of cooperation with Israel, clans have put out a statement saying they still support Hamas, Ynet said.

Whether true or not beyond the moment, it was clearly necessary.

On Wednesday, Hamas said in a statement that it welcomed the clans’ announcement and praised them for refusing to cooperate with Israel, Ynet said.

Gaza has a number of large traditional family clans affiliated with political factions including Hamas and Fatah, the rival group that dominates the Paleostinian Authority in the West Bank.

Some of the larger clans in Gaza City and elsewhere are believed to be well-armed but they have a long history of clashing over rival interests and there has been no indication that they would consider working with Israel.

Israel has not yet provided a clear plan for a postwar scenario in Gaza and has repeatedly rejected a proposal favored by the US and much of the international community to restore the Paleostinian Authority’s rule over the enclave.

In seeking an alternative to both the PA and the Hamas terror regime, which it has vowed to eradicate, Israel has been floating the possibility of Gazook clans running the Strip’s civilian affairs, while the IDF would retain security control. Some experts are dubious about the feasibility of Israel’s proposal; a similar attempt was made decades ago, unsuccessfully. But experts’ skepticism is mainly due to the diminished clout that clans now hold in contemporary Gazook society, and the inevitable influence that established Paleostinian political movements would exert over them.

Israel has also reportedly considered arming Gaza civilians in order to secure aid convoys.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says that at least 31,184 Paleostinians have been killed since October 7, and some 72,899 have been injured. The terror group’s figures are unverified, however, and don’t differentiate between civilians and combatants, of whom Israel has said it killed some 13,000 inside Gaza and an additional 1,000 inside Israel in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre.

Doghmush clan says it considers all Hamas members legitimate targets after leader assassinated

Interesting times for Hamas…

[IsraelTimes] The Doghmosh Family — a major clan 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...
— has issued a statement declaring that all Hamas
Hamas

...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
members are legitimate targets after its leader was assassinated by members of the terror group along with ten other relatives allegedly for stealing humanitarian aid

and being in contact with Israel.

The statement pledges retribution against all responsible and warns Hamas fighters not to test the clan’s patience.

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Europe

French tribunal is considering the authority to prosecute the Syrian national Islam Alloush

2022-02-10

The story of his arrest and background can be seen here and here. His former outfit is listed in our archives as Jaish al-Islam, one of many Muslim Brotherhood derivatives popular among the early opposition at the time. At the time of his arrest, he was in France on a student visa after studying poli sci and international relations in Istanbul.

A French tribunal is considering the authority to prosecute the Syrian national Islam Alloush who was arrested in #France on charges of committing war crimes. #Syria https://t.co/2JAOYl5JrL
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) February 9, 2022

ERBIL, KRG, Iraq (North Press) – The Paris Court of Appeal, France, is considering the power of the universal jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes committed in Syria in the case of Majdi Mustafa Ne’ma, also known as Islam Alloush, a Syrian citizen arrested in France.

Majdi Ne’ma, born in 1988, was a captain in the Syrian army. He defected in 2012 and became a spokesman for the Army of Islam, a Syrian armed opposition faction formed at the outbreak of the Syrian conflict.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

At least four people were killed when a car bomb exploded in the Syrian city of Afrin

2021-10-12

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

At least four people were killed when a car bomb exploded in the Syrian city of #Afrin, a medical source says, the latest such attack in the northwestern region that is controlled by #Turkey and the Syrian opposition forces it supports.https://t.co/0mwfQTyyJ0
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) October 11, 2021

The blast maimed another six people, the source said.

~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
has blamed previous kabooms in Afrin on the Syrian Kurdish YPG group, which held the Afrin area until ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish forces seized the region in a cross-border military operation in 2019.

Turkey regards the YPG as a terrorist group tied to the PKK inside its own borders, and has staged incursions into Syria in support of Syrian opposition forces to push it from the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish frontier.

The YPG views Turkey as an invader and occupying force.

Al Ahram adds:

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at six, including suspected opposition fighters. The bodies were badly charred, it said.

The explosion hit near the market in the town center not far from a post for the dominant armed group in the area, the Army of Islam, according to the Observatory. It said 12 people were also wounded, including two children.

Rudaw’s take on the story:

The explosion killed four people and wounded six others, North Press Agency (NPA) reported, citing an unnamed source.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported six were killed, including one member of Turkish-backed forces, and another 12 people were injured, including children.

North Press and the Observatory both reported two arrests were made in connection with the bombing.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Army of Islam in Gaza published a video today calling on supporters to donate to the cause of jihad against Israel.

2021-07-15

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Army of Islam in #Gaza published a video today calling on supporters to donate to the cause of jihad against #Israel. The video shows the price of various military equipment such as bullets, mortars and katyusha rockets. pic.twitter.com/tWNQ4JVsXm
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) July 14, 2021

Update for future searchability at 6:10 p.m. ET: Mumtaz Dughmush‘s outfit, also known as Jaish al-Islam and Al Qaeda in Gaza.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Turkish-backed forces fight one another in northwestern Syria

2021-02-14

[AlMasdar] Two ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish-backed bully boy groups clashed in northwestern Syria this weekend, causing a new wave of violence in the western countryside of the Aleppo Governorate.

According to local reports from the Aleppo Governorate, the festivities broke out between Jabhat al-Shamiya (Levant Front) and Jaish al-Islam

Thieves falling out over distribution of loot? How sordid.

He added, "Members of Jabhat al-Shamiya confiscated the money from a number of Jaish al-Islam elements coming from Libya, and after that, festivities erupted. "

Well sure. One group suffered the tortures of the damned at the hands of the ‘orrid Ottoman, while the other group didn’t get paid. So naturally sleeves are rolled up in preparation for slitting throats.

Local Syrian activists also confirmed that two members of Jaish al-Islam were killed and about 12 others were maimed as a result of Jabhat al-Shamiya’s attacks on the former’s headquarters in the city center.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syrian Army completes successful anti-ISIS operation in southwest Raqqa

2020-03-06

[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) launched an operation this week to clear the remaining 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/ISIS/IS/ISIS) cells in the southwestern countryside of the al-Raqqa Goernorate.

According to a military source near this front, the Syrian Arab Army managed to eliminate several Islamic State cells in southwestern al-Raqqa, reestablishing security around the areas used by the terrorist to launch attacks.

The Syrian Army also seized a large quantity of weapons and ammunition left behind by the terrorist group.

The Islamic State cells used the southwestern countryside of al-Raqqa to launch attacks against the Syrian Arab Army before this week’s anti-terror operation.

The terrorist group is still believed to have many cells in the Badiya al-Sham region that stretches from central to eastern Syria; this area has seen the most terrorist activity since the Islamic State lost their last areas in east of the Euphrates.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Heavy Turkish artillery shelling on villages in Afrin region

2020-02-14

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

BREAKING

Our reporter:
Heavy Turkish artillery shelling on villages of Maraanaz, Malikiya, Shawarga in Sharran district in Afrin region, and Samouqa & Shahba Dam in northern Aleppo pic.twitter.com/1SrXPw3vsX
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) February 13, 2020

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Europe

Islam Aloush, the former commander of the (Army of Islam) in the city of Marseille, arrested

2020-02-01

[Twitter]

#Islam_Aloush, the former commander of the ( Army of Islam ) in the city of #Marseille, has been arrested by the #French authorities on charges of #terrorism and war crimes in #Syria. Holder of a #Turkish passport and involved in bringing #Syrian mercenaries to #Libya. pic.twitter.com/7EoFHHOr7x
— M.LNA (@LNA2019M) February 1, 2020

This would be the group we know as Jaish or Jaysh al-Islam

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syria rebel group accused of abduction, murder of key activist

2018-08-16

[Al Jazeera] Since the conflict in Syria began in 2011, the government has been accused of "forcibly disappearing" tens of thousands of people, many of them peaceful protesters who later died or were killed in detention.

Armed opposition groups have also been responsible for the disappearance of activists in areas they control, but on a much smaller scale.

Among them was rights activist Razan Zaitouneh - one of the faces of the uprising against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
Zaitouneh, who founded the Violation Documentation Centre, was wanted by the Syrian government for her role in peaceful protests calling for its downfall.

Her centre kept track of atrocities and abuses committed not just by the government but the armed opposition, too.

In December 2013, Zaitouneh, along with three of her colleagues, including her husband, disappeared after being taken at gunpoint from their office in Douma.

Back then, the town on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, was surrounded by government forces but it was under the control of the opposition.

Fellow activists say Jaish al-Islam

...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
(Army of Islam), arguably the most powerful group at the time, saw 36-year-old Zaitouneh as a threat. She promoted a civil administration and a secular state which were not in line with the group's ideology.

"We, the Violations Documentation Centre in Syria, are sure the Army of Islam kidnapped them," said Mazen Darwish, a Europe-based Syrian lawyer and a colleague of Zaitouneh.

"We have proof that Razan was in their jails and under their direct supervision. This was until the beginning of 2017 as we were able to trace her movements. Regrettably after the beginning of 2017, information was cut and we have no knowledge about Razan."

Jaish al-Islam, however, denied any involvement or knowledge of the kidnap.

"Jaish al-Islam was not the only faction in Douma at the time," Hamza Bayraqdar, a spokesperson for the group said.

"There was in the entire region forces from the Martyrs of Douma, forces of the Ghouta rising, the Islamic Union of the Levant and even the Nusra Front were present."

Earlier this year, Jaish al-Islam was forced to surrender besieged Douma to government forces.

Before leaving the area, Jaish al-Islam began releasing detainees from the Tawbeh prison. Witnesses say Razan and her colleagues were held there.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syrian rebels hand over arms, leave another town near Douma

2018-04-20

[IsraelTimes] Syrian state media say hundreds of rebels fighters in a town northeast of Damascus have handed in their weapons and started to leave under an evacuation deal.

Under the agreement, the rebels are allowed to move with their families to opposition-held areas in the country’s north, effectively surrendering their turf to Syrian government forces.

The state SANA news agency says the Army of Islam fighters and their families are leaving the town of Dumayr on Thursday. The report says 1,500 rebels and 3,500 of their next of kin are to leave Dumayr for the town of Jarablus, near the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish border.

Dumayr is in the Qalamoun mountains, near the eastern Ghouta region which came under full government control last week after a weeks-long offensive and an alleged chemical weapons attack.

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The Grand Turk

‘Army Of Islam': Erdogan's Plot Against Israel

2018-03-27

A different take on the subject than we had two weeks ago.

[Algemeiner] Less than a month ago ‐ in advance of the summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul ‐ the Turkish daily Yeni Safak, which is considered one of the mouthpieces of Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), published an article entitled "A Call for Urgent Action."

The same article was also published on the newspaper’s website with the more explicit title: "What if an Army of Islam was Formed Against Israel?" The article openly called on the 57 member states of the OIC to form a joint "Army of Islam" to simultaneously attack Israel from the east, west, north and south.

According to Israel’s Shin Bet, the source of the article appears to be the Turkish company SADAT, which among other sinister plots, is aiding Hamas with funds and military gear to create a "Palestinian" army to join in the fight against Israel.

The idea of creating an "Army of Islam" to destroy Israel was accompanied by an interactive map providing formation of military forces for a joint Muslim attack on Israel. It also provides details on military forces based in various locations.

Yeni Safak further explained, "If the member states of the OIC unite militarily, they will form the world’s largest and most comprehensive army. The number of active soldiers would be at least 5,206,100, while the defense budget would reach approximately $175 billion."

This article provided additional details of the scandalous plan, stating that, "It is expected that 250,000 soldiers will participate in the first of a possible operation. Land, air and naval bases of member states located in the most critical regions will be used. Joint bases will be constructed in a short period of time. ... It is possible for 500 tanks and armored vehicles, 100 planes and 500 attack helicopters and 50 ships to mobilize quickly."

Regardless of how absurd and troubling this suicidal plan may seem, Erdogan did not disavow the report. In fact, he has reiterated on several occasions his ambition to resurrect the Ottoman Empire, in which context he wants to create the "Army of Islam."
...
MP Alparslan Kavaklioglu, a member of the ruling AKP and the head of the parliament’s Security and Intelligence Commission, recently stated: "The Muslim population will outnumber the Christian population in Europe. This... has increased the nationalistic, xenophobic and anti-Islam rhetoric there. Hence, marginal, small parties have started to get large numbers of votes... But there is no remedy for it. Europe will be Muslim. We will be effective there, Allah willing. I am sure of that."

To promote the revival of the Ottoman Empire and his ambition to become the leader of the Muslim world, Erdogan exploits Islam as the common cause around which all Muslim states can rally. He uses religion to prevent questioning either his motive or the nature of his mission, and acts as if it were all ordained by God. No one should be surprised if Erdogan soon announces that Sharia law is the law of the land. He exploits Islam for personal and political gain, uses Islamic symbols and precepts to indoctrinate the public, and promotes Islamic studies in schools to cultivate a new generation of devout Muslims loyal to him.
Continues.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Memri reveals Muslim call to arms to form joint ISLAMIC ARMY to invade Israel!

2018-03-14

[Right Scoop] The website Memri, known for monitoring and translating the Middle East, has uncovered a doozy for us in recent days and it goes right along with what we’ve been saying about Erdogan’s plans to resurrect the fatally wounded head of the Ottoman Empire.

First allow me to set the scene.

On December 6, as you well know, Trump changed US policy recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and set in motion a plan to move our embassy there from Tel Aviv. That brought about outrage and protests in the Middle East ‐ some violent ‐ and condemnations from all over Muslim world of Trump’s decision. Even the UN tried unsuccessfully to get Trump to undo his decision.

Then Erdogan steps up and takes charge of this issue on behalf of the Muslim world, making ominous threats against Israel that sound akin to invasion while leading the OIC to recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.

That’s the backdrop.

Six days after Trump made this recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, one of the top news websites in Turkey ran an article entitled "What If an Army of Islam Was Formed against Israel?" They ran it on both their newspaper (below) and on their website.

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