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French Jews decry Normandy region plan to honor pro-Hamas journalist
2024-06-07
Never again. Or not, as the case may be.
[IsraelTimes] Motaz Azaiza to receive Liberty Prize at D-Day event for ‘telling story of those affected by war,’ despite apparent praise for terror group and refusal to condemn October 7.

On the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, a regional government in La Belle France is awarding a prestigious prize to a Paleostinian journalist who has accused Israel of perpetrating a "genocide" and defended Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
terrorists’ atrocities on October 7.

The Region of Normandy faces criticism by local Jews and an international Jewish advocacy group for its plans to give its Prize of Liberty to Motaz Azaiza at a ceremony on June 4, along with a 25,000 euro ($27,000) check.

Azaiza is being honored for his "fight for the right to information, which allows him to broadcast information on the conflict, telling the story of the fate of populations affected by this war," the region wrote online.

In March, Azaiza wrote on Instagram, where he has over 18 million followers, that he did not think the October 7 atrocities by Hamas Lions of Islam should necessarily be condemned. Some 3,000 button men who burst into southern Israel that day, rampaging through communities and going on to murder some 1,200 people and abduct 252.

"If you want a besieged Paleostinian to condemn it, you need to declare that you condemn what Israel [has] been doing against Paleostinians before the 7th of October, since 1948 and during the genocide, and after it. Paleostinians are not or not terrorists, Israeli killing Paleostinians everyday like it’s a duty for them. Israel is a terror state," Azaiza wrote on March 11, after he had left 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...
for his new base in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
According to Paleostinian Media Watch, an Israeli nongovernmental organization that monitors Paleostinian media, Azaiza also posted a message celebrating Hamas Lions of Islam on Telegram.

One image from May posted in an account that Paleostinian Media Watch says appears to belong to Azaiza shows a person wearing a balaclava and a Hamas headband kneeling in prayer as the person’s forehead touches an AK-47 assault rifle. "Among the faithful, there are men who have been loyal to their oath [to fight for Allah and sacrifice their lives]," a caption of one photo on the channel reads.

Another shows Hamas Lions of Islam in prayer with the caption: "By Allah the almighty, these angels fight on our side. A message by one of the Mujahidin."

The Telegram channel has a handle that contains Azaiza’s name and pictures of a person described as his grandmother, among other images. Azaiza has not replied to queries by The Times of Israel on whether he is the operator of the channel.

On X, Azaiza uploaded a picture of Adolf Hitler
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like...
with his council juxtaposed with a picture of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet ministers.

Azaiza used to work for UNRWA, the UN agency caring for Paleostinian refugees, according to the Journal du Dimanche newspaper. Israeli officials have long charged that UNRWA ignores its mandate to remain politically neutral, hiring staffers who actively campaign against Israel. A handful of UNRWA employees took part in the October 7 atrocities and thousands more have links to Hamas or other terror groups, Israel says.

On Saturday, he wrote on social media that he is the target of a "smear campaign by Zionists" seeking to cancel his award in apparent response to objections raised by French Jews.

Nassim Lévy, a leader of Normandy’s Jewish community, in a letter to the region’s leaders, called the choice of Azaiza "immoral and inappropriate, seeing as Azaiza is associated and close to Hamas."

Azaiza left Gaza in January aboard a Qatari military plane, Journal du Dimanche reported. He is scheduled to attend an official event in Normandy along with veterans of D-Day marking the Allied invasion that took place there in 1944.

Very few Gazooks are able to leave the Gaza Strip as Azaiza had, a fact that some of his critics attribute to his alleged ties with Qatar, Hamas or both. Azaiza has been featured prominently in Western media, including Time Magazine, which included Azaiza on its list of the 100 most influential people in 2024.
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Good Morning
2024-06-07



Dem education official refuses to enforce Washington's Parents' Bill of Rights, claims students should be able to keep gender identity secret
Friday 06/07/2024

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RSF assassinates journalist
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Fighting intensifies in El Fasher
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Hezbollah 'dealing seriously'
with Israeli threats, mobilizes fighters
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Somali Military Court Executes
Three Men for Murder of Two Brothers
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas demands permanent end to Gaza war
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hezbollah kills one Israeli soldier in cross-border clash
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas demands permanent end to Gaza war
2024-06-07
Allah is not likely to intervene at this point, but perhaps President Biden will do more than talk out of both sides of his mouth…
[GEO.TV] The leader of Hamas said on Wednesday the group would demand a permanent end to the war in Gaza and Israeli withdrawal as part of a ceasefire plan, dealing an apparent blow to a truce proposal touted last week by US President Joe Biden.

Israel, meanwhile, said there would be no halt to fighting during ceasefire talks, and launched a new assault on a central section of the Gaza Strip near the last city yet to be stormed by its tanks.

The remarks by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh are apparently made in response to the Biden’s truce proposal. Washington had said it was waiting to hear an answer from Hamas to what Biden described as an Israeli initiative.
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International-UN-NGOs
UN chief says Gaza strike a 'horrific example' of civilian suffering
2024-06-07
[GEO.TV] So's slaughtering a thousand people.
The UN chief on Thursday condemned an Israeli strike on a UN-run school that the Israeli military alleged housed a "Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
compound" as a 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...
hospital said at least 37 people had been killed.

"It's 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)," 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...
's front man Stephane Dujarric said.

"Of course he condemns this attack. There will need to be accountability for everything that has happened in Gaza," he added.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas tunnel found by IDF in child's bedroom in Rafah
2024-06-07
[NYPOST] Israeli troops discovered an entrance to a 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.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas Rejects Biden Cease Fire Proposal (says Biden changed terms)
2024-06-06
(June 6, 2024 / JNS) Hamas has rejected the Israeli hostage-ceasefire deal, claiming that it is fundamentally different than the one presented by U.S. President Joe Biden on May 31, the Saudi daily Asharq al-Awsat reported on Thursday.

The Gaza-based terror group sent a clarification memorandum to the Palestinian terror factions on Wednesday, the text of which was seen by the news outlet. It claims that the current proposal "does not promise a permanent ceasefire, the occupation's forces will remain in Gaza, and when they receive the hostages, they will renew the destruction against our nation."

Hamas is demanding an end to the war and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Strip, two conditions Jerusalem rejects. The Israeli War Cabinet's goals remain the same: returning the hostages, defeating Hamas as a military and political force in Gaza and ensuring that Gaza can never again threaten Israel. Hamas has pledged multiple repeats of its Oct. 7 atrocities.
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Good Morning
2024-06-06



Hamas says 'will agree to deal with
permanent ceasefire, Israeli withdrawal'
Thursday 06/06/2024

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF Finds Tunnel in Child's Room;
Strikes Hamas HQ Inside UNRWA School
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Israeli forces kill 38 Palestinians in central Gaza
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Four killed by Israeli air strike in Gaza
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas chief says will deal 'seriously and positively' with any agreement that is based on total halt of war
Three-Year-Old Stabbed to Death
in Ohio Grocery Store Parking Lot

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Three-Year-Old Stabbed to Death in Ohio Grocery Store Parking Lot
2024-06-06
[Breitbart] A three-year-old boy has died and his mother injured after they were stabbed in a “random act of violence” in a grocery store parking lot in Cleveland, Ohio, according to officials.

The stabbing occurred at around 3:00 p.m. in the grocery story parking lot on Lorain Road in North Olmsted. Court officials allege that Bionca Ellis, 32, stole two knives from the North Olmsted Volunteers of America Thrift Store before walking to the Giant Eagle grocery store next door, following 37-year-old Margot Wood and her son, Julian, and stabbing both of them in the parking lot, 19 News reported.

“Ellis followed them and immediately stabbed the 3-year-old, located in the shopping cart, multiple times. His mother attempted to pull him out and was also stabbed,” according to the report.

North Olmsted police arrived on scene and gave first aid to both the mother and son before they were transported to St. John Medical Center, according to the report. Julian died in the hospital from his injuries. His mother was treated for non-life-threatening injuries and is expected to recover.

Captain Eric Morgan said officers located Ellis walking toward Dover Center Road, still holding the kitchen knife allegedly used in the attack, the outlet reported.

Ellis was arrested and taken to the North Olmsted Jail, where she is being held on a $1 million bond. She has since been indicted on one count of aggravated murder, two counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder, two counts of felonious assault, one count of endangering children, one count of tampering with evidence, and one count of misdemeanor theft, according to court officials.

Det. Sgt. Matthew Beck said during a Tuesday press conference that the motive is under investigation, but he called the attack an “entirely random act of violence.” Beck added that Ellis and the mother and son had no previous interactions and no interaction inside the store.

The suspect had been arrested on May 30 related to a probation violation, but she was ultimately released, Beck said. She had also visited the North Olmsted Police Department on Monday to discuss her arrest, police said, noting that she had no “known violent criminal history.”
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas says 'will agree to deal with permanent ceasefire, Israeli withdrawal'
2024-06-06
[GEO.TV] Hamas official Osama Hamdan said on Tuesday that the group could not agree to a deal that does not secure a clear Israeli position on a permanent ceasefire and complete withdrawal from Gaza. "We asked the mediators to get a clear Israeli position to commit to a permanent ceasefire and a complete withdrawal from Gaza," he told a press conference in Beirut.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas chief says will deal 'seriously and positively' with any agreement that is based on total halt of war
2024-06-06
[GEO.TV] Hamas will deal 'seriously and positively' with any cease fire agreement that is based on the total halt of war, complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and an Israeli hostages-Palestinian prisoners swap deal, Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hezbollah kamikaze UAV strikes hit IDF base in Hurfeish
2024-06-06
[TWITTER]



Projectiles described by Lebanese Hezbollah as kamikaze drones were launched into northern Israel on Wednesday, wounding at least seven people including one who was at death's door, medics said.

The attack on Hurfeish, a Druse Arab village located 3 km (1.5 miles) from the border, followed a warning by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that long-running exchanges of fire with Hezbollah 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 could soon escalate.

Witnesses said a soccer field in Hurfeish was struck. There was no immediate word on the casualties’ identities. TV footage from the scene showed army vehicles and smoke in the field.

Hezbollah grabbed credit for the attack.

The Israeli military said there had been several launches from Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
at Hurfeish. The military said it failed to sound sirens ordering people to shelters, and was investigating the incident.



… again, leading to more casualties.

Three helicopters are being used now to evacuate the wounded in what hebrew media is describing as a "serious event."
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