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IDF reveals 2 km Hamas tunnel running adjacent to Egypt border crossing in Rafah

2024-06-08

[IsraelTimes] Now-demolished underground passage was allegedly used to smuggle weapons into Gaza; military claims operational control over areas in central Gaza Strip amid renewed offensive

The Israel Defense Forces revealed Wednesday that it had recently located and destroyed a major Hamas
Hamas

..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
tunnel in southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
’s Rafah, adjacent to the border crossing with Egypt, allegedly used by the terror group to smuggle weapons into the Strip.

The discovery of the tunnel came as the IDF continued its operations in and around Rafah, while also making gains in a fresh offensive in the central Gaza Strip. Eight months into the war that started with Paleostinian terror group Hamas’s devastating October 7 onslaught in Israel, the military has found itself returning to some areas it previously operated in as Hamas works to reestablish itself at those locations.

Troops located several tunnel shafts in the Rafah area, which led to the discovery of the 2-kilometer-long (1.2-mile-long) underground route with several passages branching off it.

Inside the tunnel, troops found weapons, explosives and a large amount of intelligence material, the military said. Some parts of the tunnel were blocked by blast doors.

Combat engineers later demolished the tunnel, which was part of a vast network of passages Hamas dug under Gaza.

In total, the IDF has so far located some 20 tunnels that cross into Egypt along the so-called Philadelphi Route separating Gaza’s Rafah from Egypt. At least 82 shafts leading into the tunnels have been located in the area.

Hamas has been known to use such tunnels to smuggle weapons into Gaza, despite attempts by Egypt to thwart them over the past decade. Last week, Egyptian state media cited an unnamed high-level source as denying such tunnels still exist.

In another development Wednesday, the IDF said it has established "operational control" over the east Bureij and east Deir al-Balah areas in the central Gaza Strip, after launching a new operation in the area the day before.

Troops of the 7th Armored Brigade and Kfir Infantry Brigade killed several button men in battles and by calling in ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s, in addition to locating tunnel shafts, the IDF said.

Hours into the operation, the IDF said troops had located a mortar launcher hidden in a small structure with a United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
logo on it.

The IDF said the operation was launched following intelligence on operatives and infrastructure belonging to terror groups above and below ground in the area, several kilometers from the Israeli border.

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US announces sanctions on largely dormant West Bank terror group Lions’ Den

2024-06-07

[IsraelTimes] Group emerged in Nablus in late 2022 but has not taken responsibility for an attack since July 2023

The US State Department announced on Thursday sanctions against the Lions’ Den terror group

…established by local members of various terror groups, including Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, led by one Ibrahim Nabulsi, a wanted Palestinian gunman who was killed almost immediately in an Israeli raid in Nablus. In our archives as Lions Den and Lion’s Den, because apostrophes matter.…

that was established over two years ago in the northern West Bank, despite the group being largely inactive since last summer.

"The United States condemns any and all acts of violence committed in the West Bank, whoever the perpetrators, and we will use the tools at our disposal to expose and hold accountable those who threaten peace and stability there," US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement.

The Lions’ Den emerged in late 2022 in the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank as violence surged in the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, and carried out a number of terror attacks. It has been largely dormant over the past year, and has not grabbed credit for an attack since mid-2023.

In October 2022, Lions’ Den grabbed credit for several drive-by shootings in the Nablus area. Lions’ Den members shot up Israeli vehicles driving close to the settlement of Elon Moreh, injuring a taxi driver and damaging vehicles. In a separate attack, numerous shots were fired toward the West Bank settlement of Har Bracha, the State Department said.

In September 2022, Lions’ Den fighters injured and killed Paleostinian civilians during festivities between Paleostinian fighters and Paleostinian Authority Security Forces in Nablus, the US announcement added.

The announcement also cited April 2024 Paleostinian media reports of Lions’ Den fighters targeting Israeli forces with small arms at an Israeli checkpoint in Nablus. However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
these reports were never confirmed, the group never grabbed credit for that attack and it could well have been perpetrated by 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...
fighters.

The US has also recently sanctioned 13 Israeli settlers accused of committing violence against Paleostinians in the West Bank, as well as two outposts and four groups.

Tensions beyond the Green Line have been high since Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
’s October 7 onslaught, which saw bully boyz infiltrate Israel from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 251.

Since October 7, troops have arrested some 4,150 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,750 affiliated with Hamas. According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 520 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. According to the IDF, most have been killed during ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful festivities with troops.

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Hamas tunnel found by IDF in child's bedroom in Rafah

2024-06-07

[NYPOST] Israeli troops discovered an entrance to a Hamas
Hamas

..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
tunnel inside a child’s bedroom in Rafah on Thursday.

The IDF says it recovered a trove of weapons and explosives from the tunnel. The operation is the latest of what Israel calls its "precise, intelligence-based, targeted operations" inside Rafah.

"This week, the troops located a tunnel shaft inside a child’s room, and a butcher’s knife next to it. In addition, the troops identified six Lions of Islam near a school in the area of the troops. The Lions of Islam were eliminated by a UAV and tank fire," the IDF said in a statement.

Images released by the IDF show troops operating in the dense urban environment of Rafah. Images also show the cache of weapons, explosives and other equipment troops retrieved during the operation.

News of the operation comes the same day an Israeli strike took out Hamas and 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...
Lions of Islam hiding at a United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
school for displaced Paleostinians in central 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...
. Local officials say that the strike killed more than 30 people, including 23 women and kiddies.

Israel said it was targeting a Hamas compound inside the school containing 20 to 30 fighters and that many of them had been killed.

More from the Times of Israel:

IDF names 9 terrorists killed in school strike, slams media

Names and faces of the dead miscreants can be seen at the link.

The IDF on Thursday blasted international media organizations for again taking the claims of Hamas
Hamas

..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
authorities at face value and reporting that Israel carried out a deadly ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
on an UNRWA school without noting that the central 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...
compound was being used by terrorists.

"Sadly, we saw some media outlets fall for Hamas’s tactics yet again before checking the facts," IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said during a presser in which he revealed the identities of nine terror operatives killed in the attack.

Those targeted were members of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force and 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 who "directed terror attacks from the area of the school while exploiting it as a civilian location and as a shelter."

"The snuffies inside this school were planning more attacks against Israelis, some of them imminent. We stopped a ticking time bomb," Hagari claimed.

Hagari said there were around 30 snuffies in the three rooms that were targeted. He said some of those killed had participated in the Hamas-led October 7 terror onslaught during which some 1,200 Israelis were killed and 251 were taken hostage. Hagari said the IDF was working to verify this information further before making it public.

Many international reports on the Wednesday night strike relied on Hamas authorities’ claim that 33 Paleostinians were killed and made little or no mention of any alleged connection to terror activity.

The al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital initially reported that nine women and 14 children were among those killed in the strike on the school that had been operating as a shelter due to the war’s mass displacement of Paleostinians.

The hospital morgue on Thursday evening amended those records to show that the dead were three women, nine children and 21 men. An News Agency that Dare Not be Named news hound had counted the bodies but was unable to look beneath the shrouds.

Hagari said the strike targeted the Hamas and PIJ operatives gathered in three classrooms at the UN school and noted this was the fifth time this past month alone that the IDF struck snuffies operating from facilities belonging to the UNRWA agency for Paleostinian refugees.

"Hamas wages war from schools and hospitals. Hamas hopes that international law and public sympathy will provide a shield for its military activities, which is why it systematically operates from schools, UN facilities, hospitals and mosques," Hagari continued, stressing that this is a war crime that should be condemned by the international community.

The IDF spokesperson noted that the IDF delayed the strike twice after identifying civilians in the area, which it had been monitoring for several days.

"We conducted the strike once our intelligence and surveillance indicated that there were no women or children inside those classrooms," he asserted.

He did not deny that civilians were still killed in the strike.

Ostensibly relying on the same reports from Hamas authorities, governments and international organizations issued a flood of condemnations against Israel on Thursday.

Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN’s Paleostinian refugee agency UNRWA, said that Israel bombed the school "without prior warning."

"Another UNRWA school turned shelter attacked," he wrote on X. "Attacking, targeting or using UN buildings for military purposes are a blatant disregard of International Humanitarian law."

Stephan Dujarric, front man for UN Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
, said the strike "is just another horrific example of the price that civilians are paying, that Paleostinian men, women and kiddies who are just trying to survive (are paying).

"Of course [Guterres] condemns this attack. There will need to be accountability for everything that has happened in Gaza."

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called for a probe into the strike, writing on X, "Reports coming from Gaza time and again show that violence and suffering are still the only reality for hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. This appalling news must be independently investigated."

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues...
the US called on Israel to be "transparent" regarding the strike, State Department front man Matthew Miller told news hounds. Miller said the United States believed Israeli assessments that Hamas has at times hidden in civilian infrastructure, but said it was waiting for information on the latest strike.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 36,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far. Of these, some 24,000 fatalities have been identified at hospitals or through self-reporting by families, with the rest of the figure based on Hamas "media sources." The tolls, which cannot be verified, include some 15,000 terror operatives Israel says it has killed in battle. Israel also says it killed some 1,000 snuffies inside Israel on October 7.

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IDF Finds Tunnel in Child's Room; Strikes Hamas HQ Inside UNRWA School

2024-06-06

[Breitbart] The snoopy blanket is a nice touch
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Thursday that it had found an entrance to a Hamas terror tunnel inside a child’s room during operations in Rafah.

A Hamas tunnel was discovered by the IDF in the room of a Palestinian child in the town of Rafah, near the Gaza-Egypt border, June 2024 (IDF)

In a statement, the IDF said:

Over the past few weeks, the soldiers of the 828th Infantry Training School Brigade under the command of the 162nd Division have been conducting precise, intelligence-based, targeted operations in the Rafah area. The soldiers located weapons, eliminated terrorists and destroyed terrorist infrastructure in the area.

This week, the troops located a tunnel shaft inside a child’s room, and a butcher’s knife next to it. In addition, the troops identified six terrorists near a school in the area of the troops. The terrorists were eliminated by a UAV and tank fire.

The 828th Brigade Combat Team has completed its mission in the Rafah area and is now preparing for future operations.

The IDF has continued to move slowly through Rafah, fighting Hamas terrorists and eliminating tunnels, including smuggling tunnels along the Egyptian border. One tunnel destroyed this week in Rafah was two kilometers long.

The IDF also conducted a precise airstrike Thursday morning on a complex that it said was used by dozens of Hamas terrorists inside a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) compound in Gaza

In a statement, the IDF said:

A short while ago, IAF fighter jets, directed by IDF intelligence and the ISA, conducted a precise strike on a Hamas compound embedded inside an UNRWA school in the area of Nuseirat.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists who belonged to the Nukhba Forces and took part in the murderous attack on communities in southern Israel on October 7th were operating in the compound.

The terrorists directed terror from the area of the school while exploiting it and using it as a shelter. Several terrorists who planned to carry out terror attacks and promote terrorist activities against IDF troops in the immediate time frame were eliminated in the strike.

Before the strike, a number of steps were taken to reduce the risk of harming uninvolved civilians during the strike, including conducting aerial surveillance, and additional intelligence information.

The Times of Israel reported that Hamas claimed that Israel had carried out a "massacre," and UNRWA said dozens had been killed:

The Hamas-run government media office claimed at least 27 people were killed in what it termed the Israeli "massacre." UNRWA communications director Juliette Touma told Reuters that the number of those reported killed in the Israeli offensive on the Nuseirat school is between 35 and 45, but it still cannot confirm the number at this stage, she added. It was not immediately clear how many of those killed were members of terror groups.

CNN parroted Hamas’s claims, describing the attack as an "Israel [sic] strike on UN school that left dozens dead."

Israeli government spokesman David Mencer told reporters Thursday that the terrorists who were killed included some who were involved in the October 7 attack. He added that the IDF had targeted three specific classrooms.

Mencer added that the school had been used for "staging attacks" and as a "forward operating base." He noted that the IDF had called off the attack twice because of concern about potential civilian casualties before proceeding when it was safest to do so.

Israel has long accused Hamas of using schools for terrorist purposes, and has accused UNRWA of helping it.

Hamas has been fighting back, attempting to infiltrate terrorists into Israel even as the IDF moves into Rafah. One Israeli soldier was killed Thursday in a gun battle after terrorists were seen moving toward the border in the morning fog. Three terrorists involved in the attempted infiltration were killed in an airstrike and in tank fire, the IDF said.

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Thinking

2024-06-04

A taste.

[IsraelNationalNews] The leaders of the American State Department who whitewashed Fatah/PLO/PA are no less rejectionist towards a viable resurrected nation of the Jews than the Hamas or Islamic Jihad beheaders of Jewish infants are.

Once again the cause of creating Arab state # 22 has emerged on the center stage of world opinion. That would be the second state for Arab nationalism, not first, in the original April 25, 1920 Mandate of Palestine’s territory. As is often cited, but usually ignored, today’s Jordan was gifted with almost 80% in 1922.

The recipient Arabs would be those who deny Jews their sole, minuscule, resurrected one—whether it’s 9-15 miles wide by the pre-UNSC Resolution 242, ‘49 Auschwitz/armistice lines, or 242’s which granted Israel a reasonable territorial compromise, where Israel’s extreme vulnerability was finally taken into consideration in the wake of the June 1967 War, started with an Egyptian blockade of Israel…a casus belli.

The Arabs in question mostly came into the land of Israel/Judea from elsewhere, and only in fairly recent history (despite largely fictitious claims otherwise) have renamed themselves “Palestinians.” The more historically accurate designation should be “Palestinian ARABS”—where Arab is the main identifying noun, and Palestinian is the descriptive adjective.

They speak the same language, share most of the same culture, religion, and so forth as hundreds of millions of other Arabs. Granted, there’s some differences among these folks, but no more, for example, than 40 million stateless Kurds who speak different dialects in Turkey, Iraq , Syria, Iran, and so forth. Or, for that matter, Jews from over 50 different countries who’ve been oppressed in many if not most of those lands.

The following two links show how in the public relations fight to deny Jews their one state, Arabs have tried to transform themselves into the “old” and “new “ Jews over rights of possession in the ancient land of Israel/ Judea: Here and here.

Here’s a PLO executive committee member paraphrased in the above second link:

“There are no differences between Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese, and other Arabs…It is only for tactical snd political reasons that we now emphasize “Palestinian” identity in out battle to deny Zionism and Jews any rights to the land at all.”….Zuheir Mohsein, Dutch newspaper Trouw, 3/31/1977."

When considering the claim for a 22nd Arab state, please next consider such things as…

There are Moroccan, Libyan, Algerian, Iraqi, and other Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews who predate Arab conquerors of those lands by millennia.

Do they get to demand other states besides Israel because they perhaps decide to rename themselves “Moroccans” instead of Jews?

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Gallant vows war won’t end until Hamas is destroyed; IDF advances further in Rafah

2024-06-03

[IsraelTimes] Defense minister says Israel ‘advancing an alternative’ to terror group’s rule; troops find rocket launchers, arms near Egypt border; fighter jets hit over 30 targets across Gaza

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Sunday that Israel was working on finding a replacement for Hamas
Hamas

..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
’s rule in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, vowing that the war will not end until the terror group is dismantled of both its military and governmental capabilities.

"In any process of ending the war, we will not accept Hamas rule. We are advancing an alternative government to Hamas, within the framework of which we will isolate areas, remove the Hamas members and bring in other forces that will enable a different government," Gallant said following an assessment at the Southern Command in Beersheba.

"On one hand, military action, and on the other, the ability to change the regime [in Gaza], will lead to the achievement of two of the goals of this war: the dismantling of the Hamas government and its military power, and the return of the hostages," he added.

Gallant’s comments came after US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
on Friday presented what he described as the latest Israeli proposal for a hostage deal and ceasefire to end the war in Gaza. The US president’s address triggered shockwaves in the Israeli government, where far-right parties threatened to bring down the coalition if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to see it approved.

The war cabinet convened Sunday evening to discuss the proposal and its possible implementation, given international and domestic pressure to accept the deal aimed at securing the release of 121 hostages believed to be held by Hamas in Gaza since being kidnapped on October 7.

Despite Netanyahu’s insistence that there will be no permanent ceasefire in Gaza until Hamas’s military and governing capabilities are destroyed, the heads of the government’s two ultranationalist parties, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich of Religious Zionism and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir of Otzma Yehudit, both threatened Saturday night to bring down the government if the new deal is adopted..

War cabinet minister Benny Gantz has also issued an ultimatum to Netanyahu, demanding last month that the premier commit to an agreed-upon vision for the Gaza conflict that would include stipulating who might rule the territory after Hamas’s defeat, and warning that he would bolt the coalition should this not happen by June 8.

The deliberations came as the Israel Defense Forces pushed on with its campaign to root out Hamas in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah. The IDF said on Sunday that troops had recently begun to operate in the Yabna camp in central Rafah, adjacent to the border with Egypt.

Troops of the Givati Brigade killed several terror operatives and located military infrastructure during recent operations in the area, the IDF said, adding that soldiers also located many weapons, including anti-aircraft machine guns.

Troops of the 9th Armored Battalion, operating under the Givati Brigade in the area, located several rocket launching pits on the Gaza-Egypt border.

Israeli fighter jets struck more than 30 targets across Gaza over the past day, according to an IDF update on Sunday morning. The targets included Hamas infrastructure, weapon depots and cells of button men.

Nahal Brigade troops in Rafah also directed an ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
against a rocket launcher, moments after it was used to attack troops in the area. There were no injuries in the rocket attack.

The IDF published images of rocket launchers and a weapons depot discovered by Nahal Brigade troops in Rafah in recent days. The troops used a small drone to scan a suspicious building, where several barrels packed with explosives were located, according to the military.

Over the weekend, the IDF announced the names of a number of "prominent" Hamas operatives who were killed in airstrikes in the Gaza Strip in recent days.

On Thursday, fighter jets struck in central Gaza’s Nuseirat, killing Mansour Adil Mansour Kashlan, whom the IDF said was involved in advancing terror attacks in Israel and in the West Bank.

"The terrorist... advanced and carried out terror activities, as well as engaged in coordination and cooperation with terror groups in the Gaza Strip and other countries," the military said.

In another strike this past week in central Gaza, carried out by a drone, Walid Abed Abu Dalal was killed. The IDF said Abu Dalal served in the terror group’s military wing, alongside his role as head of the technology department in Hamas’s internal security forces.

The military noted that Hamas’s internal security forces, and especially its technology department, "harm the IDF’s freedom of action in the Gaza Strip, and are also a significant part of Hamas’s counter-espionage attempts."

In a separate strike, on Friday, also in Nuseirat, Tareq Darwish was killed. According to the IDF, Darwish was a prominent member of the Nuseirat Battalion’s aerial array. The military said he was killed following attempts in the past month to "impede the IDF’s freedom of aerial action" in Gaza.

The IDF released footage of the latter strike.

In another strike last week, the IDF said it killed Salame Baraka, a member of Hamas’s East Khan Younis Battalion, who also served as head of the finance department in the terror group’s police.

The military said that it also targeted a building belonging to the al-Noor organization in Gaza City last week week. According to the IDF, al-Noor is classified as a terror group, due to its funding of Hamas. The military said al-Noor transferred millions of dollars to Hamas for terror activity in the West Bank, as well as distributing funds to the families of Hamas operatives killed or tossed in the clink
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
by Israel. The strike against the organization’s building in the area of Gaza City’s Daraj and Tuffah neighborhoods took place on Thursday.

Also in Gaza City, the IDF said it launched a new pinpoint raid against Hamas in the Sabra neighborhood this past week, carried out by the Multi-Domain, or Ghost Unit, alongside the Carmeli and Yiftah reserve brigades, under the 99th Division. Troops of the elite Ghost Unit, alongside other forces, killed dozens of button men and demolished a weapons depot in Sabra over the past two days, the IDF said, adding that soldiers also located weapons and many tunnel shafts during sweeps of the area.

The IDF first operated in the Sabra neighborhood during the beginning of the ground offensive last year, after Hamas started the war with its October 7 massacre.

TALKS ON REOPENING RAFAH CROSSING
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon...
a meeting between US, Egyptian and Israeli officials was scheduled to take place on Sunday in Cairo to discuss the reopening of Gaza’s Rafah Crossing, according to a high-level source quoted by Egypt’s state-linked Al Qahera TV.

Egypt is insisting that Israel withdraw its forces from the crossing, according to Al Qahera, after the IDF seized the Paleostinian side of the crossing in May.

In a weekly humanitarian aid summary, meanwhile, the IDF said on Sunday that 1,858 trucks carrying humanitarian aid had entered the Gaza Strip after being inspected by Israeli authorities. It said the trucks — carrying food, water, medical equipment, and shelter equipment — entered Gaza via the Kerem Shalom Crossing in the Strip’s south and the Erez West Crossing in the north of the territory. The numbers include 764 trucks from Egypt, the IDF says. Egypt had briefly halted humanitarian aid deliveries after the IDF took over the Rafah Crossing last month, before agreeing, in coordination with the United States, to resume deliveries via Kerem Shalom.

There was no mention of airdrops of aid to Gaza, where the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
has warned of "imminent famine" among many of the densely-populated coastal enclave’s 2.3 million population.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 35,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though only some 24,000 fatalities have been identified at hospitals. The toll, which cannot be verified, includes some 15,000 terror operatives Israel says it has killed in battle. Israel also says it killed some 1,000 Death Eaters inside Israel on October 7.

A total of 294 soldiers have been killed during the ground offensive against Hamas and amid operations along the Gaza border. A civilian Defense Ministry contractor has also been killed in the Strip.

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Egypt demands 'Israel withdraws from Rafah crossing for it to operate again'

2024-06-03

No. Go sit in a corner and mourn your exposed smuggling tunnels while the IDF gets on with what must be done.

[GEO.TV] Officials from the United States, Israel and Egypt ended a meeting in Cairo on Sunday with Egypt sticking to its position that Israel must withdraw from the Paleostinian side of the Rafah crossing for it to operate again, two Egyptian security sources said.

The Egyptian security sources said Sunday's meeting was positive despite there being no agreement on reopening of the crossing. Egypt's delegation at the meeting said it would be open to European monitors at the border to oversee its operation by Paleostinian authorities if Paleostinian authorities agreed to resume work.

Israeli and US officials said they would work quickly to remove the obstacles to the operation of the crossing, the Egyptian sources said.

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Egypt extends crackdown on Gaza activism with student arrests

2024-06-02

[IsraelTimes] Despite growing official criticism of Israel, Cairo remains unwilling to allow pro-Palestinian demonstrations, fearing unrest could fuel domestic political dissent

Egypt has detained several students who were trying to promote pro-Paleostinian boycotts and solidarity campaigns, the latest sign that it does not want to leave space for activism over the war 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...
despite growing official criticism of Israel.

The students are among dozens of people held in connection with protests against Israel’s military campaign, some of them detained in October when state-sanctioned rallies spilled over to unauthorized sites, including Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

Analysts say Egyptian authorities fear that demonstrations over the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict could fuel domestic political dissent, which has been suppressed in a broad crackdown lasting more than a decade.

According to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), an independent Cairo-based group, at least 125 people have been arrested since the Gaza war began in October, 95 of whom are still being held in pre-trial detention on charges including membership of a banned group or spreading false news.

Three students were arrested earlier this month over their attempt to create a group called Students for Paleostine, according to Nabeh El Ganadi, a human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
lawyer who represents two of the students. They include Ziad Bassiouny, a 22-year-old student at an arts institute in Giza.

About 40 members of the security forces were deployed to arrest Bassiouny at his apartment in the early hours of May 9, his mother Fayza Hendawy told Rooters.

"They pointed their rifles at us so that none of us could move," she said, describing the overnight raid.

The students "did not call for protests or anything like that", she said. "It’s not a political group, they’re just students calling on Egyptian students to stand with Paleostine and show their support publicly like the rest of the universities globally."

This is what politics is when it’s not about elections, you precious, ignorant fool.

Egypt’s state information service did not respond to a Rooters request for comment, and an interior ministry official could not immediately be reached.

Egyptian officials have publicly stated their support for Paleostinian rights in the context of the war, and have strongly criticized Israel’s military campaign. "What is astonishing is that this is their official position," Hendawy said.

Rights groups say tens of thousands of people from across Egypt’s political spectrum have been arrested for dissent since 2013 when then-army chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi led the ouster of then-Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi of the Moslem Brüderbund, freely elected the year before after protracted "Arab Spring" unrest.

Hamas
Hamas

..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
, Gaza’s ruling terror group, is an offshoot of the Brotherhood and Egypt helped Israel impose a blockade on Gaza after Hamas seized control of the territory in 2007.

Supporters of Sisi, who has been president since 2014, say the security crackdown has been needed to stabilize Egypt, and that the judiciary is independent. Officials say they have taken steps to protect rights and expand political participation, though critics say the measures are largely cosmetic.

Public demonstrations are generally outlawed.

Nineteen activists were detained in late April as they held a rally outside a United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
office in Cairo to show solidarity with women in Gaza and Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
, before being released on bail, according to EIPR. Earlier in the month, security forces detained people at a protest in the center of the capital where slogans criticizing Sisi were chanted.

Ganadi, the human rights lawyer, said the arrests fitted a pattern of authorities trying to block organized movements including professional and student associations.

"No one is doing anything, but they might, so since they might do something and this is something on the table, why shouldn’t we arrest them or hold them accountable?" he said.

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What is Hamas Hiding in Rafah, and Why Doesn't Biden Want the IDF to Find It?

2024-06-02

[Townhall] In the lead up to the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) operation to destroy Hamas and secure the release of over 100 hostages — including 8 Americas — believed to be in and around Rafah, leaders around the world from Joe Biden to the collective leftist leaders of the European Union to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi panicked and ordered Israel to forestall its necessary means to end the war.

Why did world leaders clamor for Israel to do nothing?

What are they hiding?

It turns out they are hiding a lot.

...Meanwhile, Israel continued to negotiate through the "good" offices of the United States, Egypt, and Qatar for the release of hostages. Out of thin air, on May 6 Hamas agreed to the ceasefire terms. Only, what actually happened was that the terms they agreed to were not the negotiated terms that the US, Qatar, and Israel had seen. Indeed, Egypt edited the ceasefire terms in such a way that Hamas would get a "win" and say they accepted the terms, but the terms, as edited, were outrageous. Even the even-keeled US negotiator, CIA Chief William Burns, was mystified and outraged. What kind of nonsense game was Egypt playing? Cairo pulled a bait-and-switch on the Israelis and the other negotiators ensuring that, needless to say, negotiations broke down.

On the IDF’s first day of entry into Rafah in mid-May they discovered hundreds of tunnels with over 50 two-way underground tunnels between Rafah and Egypt. Dozens more cross-border tunnels have been discovered since, along the Rafah-Egypt border. Some tunnels were paved and wide enough for passage of full-sized cargo trucks.

...Egypt built a formidable border wall, something Donald Trump could not even imagine in a fever dream for America. It is impenetrable, militarized, and closely guarded with Egyptian troops and security forces. The way through it for Gazans seeking to get out of Gaza? Baksheesh. Upwards of $5,000 per person. It has also been a gateway for international aid and smuggling into Gaza resulting in over $88 million in profit to the holder of the border keys.

The holder of those keys is a Bedouin tribal leader named Ibrahim al-Organi, now the wealthiest man in northern Sinai. But how could an ex-con smuggler rise to a position of border control prince? Through connections to the Egyptian government, Organi has cultivated extremely close ties with Egyptian President al-Sisi, and more significantly, with al-Sisi’s son, Mahmoud. General Mahmoud al-Sisi is the Deputy Chief of Egyptian intelligence and he sits on Organi’s board. It’s good to have friends in high places, and in the case of Organi, it has made him, and those in his network, very wealthy.
And, just like Hunter, Mahmoud splits with the big guy?
Every day there is additional evidence of Egyptian smuggling in Gaza. Intelligence on May 31, 2024 uncovered surface to air missiles smuggled into Rafah from Egypt. The large cache purportedly would have been used to take down IDF helicopters. How much money changed hands for Egypt to have turned a blind eye (or been complicit) in these types of smuggling operations?

...Recently, following Israel’s successful surgical strike in Rafah to eliminate two terrorist masterminds, a humanitarian safe area caught fire and several civilians were killed. Hamas’s publicity hacks blamed Israel's strike. The IDF undertook an investigation which uncovered that the fire ignited over 1.7 kilometers from the IDF strike and was not caused by their action. Rather there was an ordnance storage facility in Rafah abutting the humanitarian zone and there were explosions in the stockpile that caused the fire. Hamas purposely stored highly combustible ammunition alongside a humanitarian zone for civilians.

The ordnance themselves were quite interesting. It turns out many were US-manufactured munitions that had been sold to Egypt. With Israel now in control over the entire Gaza-Egypt border area, it is all but certain that more evidence of Egyptian smuggling of American-made weapons and possible collusion with Hamas will unfold. What will happen to the US-Egypt relationship as a result?

...What is becoming obvious is that there were a lot of reasons for Egypt and America to want Israel to remain outside of Rafah. The secrets that will be revealed through the IDF’s operations may well surprise the civilized world as Israel fights to defeat the barbarians.

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Africa Subsaharan

Deadly clashes in Malakal raise concerns ahead of Political Rally

2024-06-02

[SUDANTRIBUNE] Violent clashes in Malakal, South Sudan, have left several people dead and raised concerns about escalating tensions ahead of a planned high-level political rally by the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM).

The clashes erupted on Thursday between two camps housing internally displaced people from the Shilluk and Nuer ethnic groups, according to sources from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the state government. The violence resulted in deaths and destruction of property.

UNMISS confirmed in a statement that tensions remain high at the UN Protection of Civilians Site adjacent to its base in Malakal. The mission expressed deep concern about the violence and urged state and local authorities and government security forces to maintain stability and order in the area.

“Such violence causes lasting harm to communities and prevents UNMISS from continuing our vital protection and peacebuilding work,” said Nicholas Haysom, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of UNMISS.

The mission called on feuding parties to exercise restraint and engage in dialogue to resolve their differences peacefully. UNMISS is working with the state government, community leaders, and security actors to restore calm.

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IDF releases footage of Gaza-Egypt border tunnels used by Hamas to smuggle weapons

2024-06-01

On Friday, the Moslem sabbath. Allah must approve, or it would not have happened, right?

[IsraelTimes] Army says troops have demolished dozens of tunnel shafts and several ‘significant’ underground routes along the so-called Philadelphi Corridor, destroyed 5 primed rocket launchers

The Israel Defense Forces on Friday released footage showing Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
smuggling tunnels and rocket launchers discovered by troops along 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...
-Egypt border, as Israel continued to move forward with its pinpoint offensive in the coastal enclave’s southernmost city of Rafah.

Along the so-called Philadelphi Corridor, adjacent to Rafah, the IDF has located so far some 20 tunnels that cross into Egypt. Another 82 tunnel shafts leading into the tunnels have been located in the corridor area.

Hamas has been known to use such tunnels to smuggle weapons into Gaza, despite attempts by Egypt to thwart them in the past decade. A "high-level" source speaking to Egyptian state media this week denied such tunnels still exist.

The IDF said it has so far demolished dozens of tunnel shafts and several "significant" underground routes in the corridor area, while others are still being investigated.

Hamas operatives were killed by IDF troops inside some of the tunnels, the military said.

A happy thought…

The IDF also said it located five primed rocket launching sites along the Gaza-Egypt border. The launchers were all demolished.

On Wednesday, the IDF announced that it had established "operational control" over the entire Philadelphi Corridor. Troops are physically located in most of the corridor. There is a small section near the coast where ground forces are not present, but the IDF says it is controlling the area with surveillance and firepower.

The release of the footage came after the military announced earlier Friday that Israeli forces located long-range rockets and additional weapons and military equipment in the eastern part of Rafah and along the Philadelphi Corridor. Additionally, the IDF confirmed for the first time that it was operating in the center of Rafah, a day after tanks were reported in the area.

As it pushed further into Rafah, the military also said Friday that soldiers pulled out of the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, wrapping up an operation to clear out Hamas-led fighters who had re-entrenched there.

Despite a growing wave of international criticism of the operation, the IDF has asserted that Rafah is the last major remaining Hamas stronghold in the Strip, and suggested that many of the remaining hostages captured by the terror group on October 7 could be held in the city.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 36,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though only some 22,000 fatalities have been identified at hospitals. The toll, which cannot be verified, includes some 15,000 terror operatives Israel says it has killed in battle.

294 soldiers have been killed during the ground offensive against Hamas and amid operations along the Gaza border. A civilian Defense Ministry contractor has also been killed in the Strip.

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One killed, several hurt in Tel Aviv clashes between Eritrean migrants Monday

2024-05-31

[IsraelTimes] Eritrean national being investigated for suspected murder, 20 others arrested over brawl that follows series of deadly incidents

A man was stabbed to death during a brawl in south Tel Aviv between migrant supporters and opponents of Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
’s regime late Monday, police and medics said.

The Magen David Adom ambulance service said five other people were maimed in the festivities, three of them seriously.

Police announced they arrested more than 20 people following the brawl, and are investigating a suspect, an Eritrean national, for murder.

More arrests are expected, and dozens of officers have been deployed in the area to maintain order, police added.

There has previously been similar violence among Eritrean ~~migrants~~ colonists in both Israel and elsewhere, including major festivities in Tel Aviv last September in which at least 170 people were hurt — including coppers.

Earlier this month, an anti-regime migrant stabbed to death a pro-regime migrant in a south Tel Aviv neighborhood. In September, an Eritrean man was stabbed to death in Netanya during a fight between ~~migrants~~ colonists, nine of whom were hurt, including a man who was severely maimed.

The string of incidents since last year has brought attention to the roughly 20,000 Eritreans who are living in Israel, after entering it illegally before the completion of a barrier along the Egyptian border in 2012. Israeli governments have taken a series of measures — some of which were blocked by the courts — to encourage the ~~migrants~~ colonists, many of whom contend they are refugees from war and oppression, to leave the country.

Most African ~~migrants~~ colonists arrived in Israel through Egypt in 2007-2012, before Israel built a barrier along the desert border. Few ~~migrants~~ colonists have arrived since that time.

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