[JustTheNews] Nineteen alleged members of a human smuggling organization were charged for coordinating the smuggling of dozens of unauthorized migrants into the United States from Mexico, mostly aboard personal watercraft on the Pacific Ocean.
Federal authorities busted a human smuggling operation powered by jet skis along the California coast.
Nineteen alleged members of a human smuggling organization were charged for coordinating the smuggling of dozens of unauthorized migrants into the United States from Mexico, mostly aboard personal watercraft on the Pacific Ocean.
Nine of the 19 are in custody. A grand jury returned an indictment against 14 members and a complaint was filed against an additional five, according to the Justice Department.
The nine arrested defendants were picked up at ports in San Diego during a multi-agency enforcement effort last week; the remaining defendants are fugitives.
Federal agents served court-authorized search warrants at suspected San Diego and Los Angeles stash houses. Agents seized over $100,000 in U.S. currency and two boxes of ammunition, in addition to more than $120,000 seized during the investigation.
"Human smuggling cases are a top priority because lives are at stake," U.S. Attorney Tara McGrath for the Southern District of California said. "Whether racing a jet ski up the coast without lifejackets or hauling a tractor trailer packed with people, smugglers expose vulnerable migrants to extreme danger and prioritize profit over human life."
The group took part in a long-running conspiracy to bring people from Mexico into the United States by land and sea. The group arranged for transport from Mexico by personal watercraft to coastal areas such as Sunset Cliffs, Bird Rock in La Jolla, and Imperial Beach, California. The smuggling operations took place at night and in dangerous conditions, according to the indictment and complaint.
Officials said the smugglers favor personal watercraft for their speed and ability to approach shore quickly, allowing rapid drop-offs and escape from authorities.
Group members were sometimes responsible for taking migrants further within the United States, whether driving themselves or coordinating with other drivers, including to Los Angeles; Santa Barbara, California; and Las Vegas, according to court records.
The organization allegedly charged between approximately $7,000 and $16,000 per smuggled person and transported tens of thousands of dollars in profits from San Diego to Mexico, according to court records.
"This indictment serves as notice to those transnational criminal organizations operating along our coastal border that it is only a matter of time before they are brought to justice," San Diego Sector Chief Border Patrol Agent Patricia McGurk-Daniel said. "Our focus continues to be on protecting our nation, and we will leverage all available resources to hold these criminals accountable for their actions."
Defendants Edgar Jiminez Macias, 33; Alex Ceja Guzman, 30, also known as Alejandro and Gordo; and Tobias Julian Burgara Gonzalez, 32, all of Tijuana, Mexico, and Junior Zavala Ramirez, 34, also known as JR, of Tecate, Mexico, are in custody. They are charged with conspiracy to bring in aliens for financial gain and bringing in aliens for financial gain and aiding and abetting.
If convicted, they each face a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine.
Additional defendants Ivan Pulido Jauregui, 49; Manuel Gonzalez Lopez, 26, also known as Tortillero; Jesus Misael Molina Flores, 20; Alexis Adrian Villela Inda, 29; and Mateo Adrian Alduenda Gutierrez, 26, all of Nayarit, Mexico, are also in custody and are charged with conspiracy to bring in aliens for financial gain. If convicted, they each face a maximum penalty of five years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine.
The names of the remaining defendants were not publicly released.
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In other jet ski news, it looks like one of the Uke "Sea Baby" got lost:
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/watch-ukrainian-kamikaze-drone-jet-washes-istanbul-beach
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Is it just my imagination, or is Federal law enforcement.....suddenly ramping up law enforcement ?
[FoxNews] Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada Garcia co-founded the Sinaloa Cartel with Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman
The Mexican drug kingpin Ismael Zambada Garcia, also known as "El Mayo," who co-founded the notorious Sinaloa drug cartel was taken into custody in El Paso, Texas on Thursday, according to the Department of Justice.
Also taken into custody was Juaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of the cartel's other co-founder, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
"The Justice Department has taken into custody two additional alleged leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world," U.S. Attorney General Merick B. Garland said. "Ismael Zambada Garcia, or ‘El Mayo,’ cofounder of the Cartel, and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, a son of its other cofounder, were arrested today in El Paso, Texas."
Were they, perchance, in America illegally?
Zambada Garcia and now-jailed drug lord "El Chapo" founded the Sinaloa Cartel.
A federal law enforcement source told Fox News Joaquin Guzman Lopez surrendered to U.S. authorities, but El Mayo was captured. Guzman Lopez cut a deal with U.S. authorities, and turned on El Mayo, the source explained.
Guzman Lopez got on a private airplane with El Mayo and instead of heading south to Mexico like El Mayo thought, the plane went north to El Paso where the two were taken into custody.
"El Mayo," who the Department of Justice was offering a $15 million reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction, now faces a litany of indictments for crimes related to drug trafficking and organized crime in the United States.
"El Mayo and Guzman Lopez join a growing list of Sinaloa Cartel leaders and associates who the Justice Department is holding accountable in the United States. That includes the Cartel’s other cofounder, Joaquin Guzman Loera, or ‘El Chapo’; another of El Chapo’s sons and an alleged Cartel leader, Ovidio Guzman Lopez; and the Cartel’s alleged lead sicario, Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, or 'El Nini.'" Garland said.
[OPENDOORSUK.ORG] 331 people, mostly women and kiddies, held captive by Islamic gunnies group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , have been rescued by the Nigerian army! Among those freed is Ihyi Abdul, originally kidnapped from her school in Chibok in 2014, and her two children; she is pregnant with her third child.
According to Nigerian news, the military have handed over everyone rescued to the Borno State Governor. This rescue was part of an ongoing initiative in the north east called Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK).
FORCIBLY MARRIED TO EIGHT MEN IN 10 YEARS Ihyi Abdul, now 27 years old, shared in a statement that she walked for days before reaching a military checkpoint, ’where they took me and my children in’. She gave a glimpse into what life inside Boko Haram camps looks like for women: "I married eight men and gave birth to three children for different husbands."
Brigadier General Abubakar Haruna said, "The plight of the remaining Chibok girls still in captivity necessitated the conduct of military operations deep into the terrorists’ enclaves with the aim of facilitating their release. OPHK will continue to do its best to rescue the remaining Chibok girls in line with the strategic guidance of the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, and Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja."
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Another Chibok girl
Michelle Obama will be pleased that her efforts on behalf of the kidnapped Nigerian girls have finally borne fruit.
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Obamas gone nuts... make that loco...
Show voters a crack in the coco:
"Sirs, bring back our girls...
And our natural curls!"
"Also, Allah, please bring back our Boko."
[AA.TR] The mass trial of 300 captured members of the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... terrorist group has begun in Nigeria.
Michael Abu, Director of Strategic Communications and Head of the National Counter-Terrorism Center, shared updates on the judicial process Wednesday.
Abu confirmed that the trial adheres to international criminal justice standards and is being overseen by the Federal High Court of Nigeria.
He highlighted that five judges are presiding over the trial to ensure swift justice for the 300 defendants.
The Nigerian government previously announced plans to prosecute 5,000 Boko Haram members captured in the country’s northeastern region. The murderous Moslems are being tried in groups at the federal court.
Since 2009, Boko Haram has been responsible for mass terror attacks in Nigeria, resulting in over 20,000 deaths.
The group has extended its attacks to neighboring countries Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , Chad and Niger since 2015, leading to at least 2,000 more deaths in the Lake Chad Basin area.
Hundreds of thousands of Nigerians are displaced annually due to terror attacks and ongoing conflicts.
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[ARABNEWS] A boat with at least 45 refugees has capsized off the coast of Yemen’s Taiz on Wednesday night, and there are only four survivors, the UN refugee agency in Yemen said on Thursday.
The boat capsized because of strong winds and overloading, the agency added. It said it was working with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to assist the survivors and provide protection.
No further details were provided about the rest of the refugees.
In June, at least 49 migrants died and 140 went missing after their vessel, which departed from Somalia carrying 260 migrants, capsized of the Yemeni coast.
IOM, which runs a tally of migrants who are killed or go missing on migration routes, has since 2014 recorded 1,860 migrant deaths and disappearances along the route running from East Africa and the Horn of Africa to Gulf countries.
According to the United Nations, 97,000 migrants arrived in Yemen from the Horn of Africa last year.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Police officers accidentally detained a native of Azerbaijan in Moscow, who turned out to be a militant of the Al-Qaeda group (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation). This was reported on July 25 by a source familiar with the situation.
According to the informant, whose words were quoted by Izvestia, the detainee took part in military operations in Syria on the side of terrorists from 2012 to 2013.
…back when it was Al Qaeda of Iraq and Syria?
He is currently in a pretrial detention center, and will then be handed over to the authorities of Azerbaijan.
According to the Telegram channel Mash, law enforcement officers detained the 37-year-old militant when they stopped him on Michurinsky Prospekt to check his documents. In 2019, a Baku court issued a warrant for the militant's arrest, but he managed to escape to Russia via Kazakhstan.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 15, Federal Security Service (FSB) officers detained two migrants from the Central Asian region in Omsk who had organized a collection of money to buy weapons for militants of the Islamic Katiba Tawhid Wal-Jihad (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation). The detainees regularly transferred money to the accounts of the international terrorist organization.
On July 11, the FSB prevented an armed attack by a member of a terrorist organization banned in Russia on an Orthodox church in Adygea. The detainee turned out to be from one of the countries of the Central Asian region.
Later, the man who was preparing the terrorist attack admitted that he was going to set fire to the Holy Dormition Cathedral in Maykop. He specified that he did this on the instructions of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation).
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[Regnum] Two citizens of the Russian Federation have been arrested in Germany on charges of collecting money for the terrorist group Islamic State. This was reported on July 25 by the German Prosecutor General's Office.
“Today, July 25, 2024, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office arrested Russian citizens Abdulrashid D. and Surkho Z. in the district of the Duchy of Lauenburg and in Hamburg,” the message sent out states.
The arrest was accompanied by searches at sites in Berlin, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony. According to the German investigation, those arrested in early summer 2022 joined a terrorist organization, where they were collecting funds in Germany and other European countries. Donations were collected through social networks and sent to one of the members of the extremist organization.
According to preliminary data, the collected funds were used to finance militants and their wives who are imprisoned in European prisons.
Earlier, Regnum news agency reported that German police prevented a terrorist attack before the final match of the 2024 European Football Championship, which took place on July 15 at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
The raids were carried out just a few hours before the final, the authors noted. According to this information, the attack was supposed to take place on Berlin's Breitscheidplatz square, where a fan zone with thousands of fans was located.
In June, the German prosecutor's office reported the arrest of a man suspected of having links to ISIS (an organization whose activities are banned in Russia). He tried to get a job as a security guard at facilities related to Euro 2024, but failed the background check.
[ARABNEWS] Belgian police have conducted 14 house searches in a terrorism investigation, the federal public prosecutor’s office said on Thursday, adding seven people were taken in for questioning.
"They are suspected, among other things, of preparing a terrorist attack. The specific targets of the attack had not yet been determined," it said in a statement.
A judge will decide later if they are to be charged.
The house searches took place in the cities of Antwerp, Liege and Ghent, among others, and in the Brussels region.
The prosecutor’s office did not immediately comment on whether the plans had a link to the Gay Paree Olympics, which commences on Friday.
The Gay Paree anti-terrorism prosecutor did not respond when asked if it was involved in the investigation.
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[FOXNEWS] One of the groups responsible for protests in Washington during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress called his embrace by politicians a "disgraceful spectacle."
The Answer Coalition was one of several organizers of Wednesday's demonstration by anti-Israel agitators near the U.S. Capitol.
"The disgraceful spectacle inside the Capitol was matched by a disgraceful spectacle outside," the group said in a news release. "The whole area was converted into ’Fort Netanyahu,’ with massive fences and barricades blocking all the surrounding streets so as to deprive the people of their right to protest near the war criminal’s whereabouts. They even innovated new ways to waste tax dollars by bussing in NYPD officers to 'serve and protect' Netanyahu for a day.
"As soon as this mass assembly began to march towards Congress, police attacked," the statement continued. "So not only does the Biden-Harris administration direct U.S. tax dollars to fund the Israeli war machine, they unleash pepper spray on people who object."
On Thursday, Netanyahu met with President Biden at the White House as Israel continues its war against Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... 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 following the terror group's deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israeli communities.
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I wonder how they would react if a terrorist group attacked their get together. Then kidnapped a few 100 of them and murdered scores more?
Fixed it for you, Whavick Scourge of the Apes9857. Some American Jews vote Democrat — others don’t. The Republican Jewish Coalition was founded in 1985, and has chapters in forty-seven states. They’re all in on Donald Trump for president.
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, founded in 1989 by a Jewish US Navy veteran, has been speaking out against Biden administration anti-gun efforts and just today had a piece describing VP Harris as potentially even worse.
The Trump 47 Committee has its own Jewish Leadership Coalition.
All three of these and other Jewish groups participated in the Republican National Convention last week.
Fair question!
Boring, repetitive question. Jews are no more homogenous than white men, among many other politically non-homogenous groups they could be compared to.
^^^ Chuck Schumer
^^^ George Soros
^^^ The late Diane Fienstein
^^^ Michael Bennet (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Richard Blumenthal (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Brian Schatz (Congress Democrat))
^^^ Jacky Rosen (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Jon Ossoff (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Jerrold Nadler (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Brad Sherman (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Jan Schakowsky (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Adam Schiff (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Steve Cohen (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Suzanne Bonamici (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Lois Frankel (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Brad Schneider (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Josh Gottheimer (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Jamie Raskin (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Susan Wild (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Mike Levin (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Dean Phillips (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Kim Schrier (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Elissa Slotkin (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Jake Auchincloss (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Sara Jacobs (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Kathy Manning (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Becca Balint (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Dan Goldman (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Greg Landsman (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Seth Magaziner (Congress Democrat)
^^^ Jared Moskowitz (Congress Democrat)
'Not in our name': the Jewish New Yorkers (2 million strong) speaking out against 'dehumanisation' of Palestinians (France24.24)
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^^^ Lastly (Jewish) Douglas Craig Emhoff, Husband of Kamala Harris.
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Golly. Out of some six million American Jews, you can name fewer than three dozen who match your criteria, Mr. Whavick Scourge of the Apes9857 — and one of them is no longer among the living. An argument to impress your interlocutors, to be sure.
Murphy was part of a group of 1,000 or so protesters who gathered outside US Senator Chuck Schumer’s house on Friday, October 13, to encourage him and other politicians to stop funding the Israeli military.
One thousand out of two million is precisely 0.5%. Half of one percent.
[GEO.TV] At least five people were killed and two others injured during an armed clash between two groups over an old enmity in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... ’s Defence Housing Authority on Thursday night.
According to the details, the armed clash took place between Fahad Bugti group and Ali Haider Bugti group in DHA’s Khayaban-e-Nishat. The dear departed and the injured were relatives of slain Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti.
DIG South Asad Raza said that the reason behind the clash was an "old enmity".
Three people from one group and two from the other group were killed in the firing, the police said. All the dear departed and the injured were cousins.
After being informed police and rescue officials rushed to the scene of the crime and shifted the bodies and the injured to the Civil Hospital.
The dear departed were identified as Mir Esa Bugti, Ali, Fahad, Naseebullah and Mir Mesum Bugti. While Mir Ali Haider Bugti and Qaim Ali sustained bullet injuries, said the hospital administration.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!... Sindh Home Minister Ziaul Hassan Lanjar took notice of the armed clash and sought a detailed report from the Additional IGP Karachi.
Talking to journalists, the home minister said that the incident, according to initial investigations, was a result of a personal enmity, adding that the dear departed and the injured belonged to same tribe.
"Both groups belong to the family of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti," he added.
Lanjar said that no one is above the law, adding that all necessary measures will be taken to ensure the writ of law.
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[FoxNews] No one was injured in the attack, a U.S. defense official told Fox News
Four rockets struck Thursday near Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq, which houses U.S. troops, but there were no reported injuries, and there was no damage to the base, Fox News has learned.
That sounds like the shoot-off-and-pray methods of the Shiite paramilitaries who ineffectually fire Iranian rockets at the Yanks on Iranian orders.
A U.S. defense official told Fox News none of the rockets landed inside the base.
The attack comes just days after U.S. and Iraqi officials met at a Pentagon summit to discuss when the coalition against ISIS in Iraq could end and transition to a bilateral security relationship with some U.S. troops likely remaining.
Iraqi factions aligned with Iran have called on all 2,500 U.S. troops that remain in the country to withdraw.
The attack on the airbase also comes just one day after fighter jets intercepted two Russian Tu-95 "Bear" bombers and two Chinese H-6 bombers off the coast of Alaska.
NORAD fighter jets from the United States and Canada conducted the interception.
Iran-backed factions in Iraq have targeted U.S. troops at bases in the country dozens of times since the start of the Israel-Gaza War in October with a slowdown since February.
[GEO.TV] Israeli forces recovered on Wednesday the bodies of five hostages killed in Hamas' October 7 attack and held in Gaza since, the Israeli military said.
Four of the hostages, killed in combat during the October 7 attack, were two reserve soldiers and two conscript soldiers, the military said.
Maya Goren, a 56-year-old kindergarden teacher, was also killed during the attack on her kibbutz, Nir Oz, according to Israeli Army Radio, one of the communities worst hit in the deadly attack in southern Israel.
[IsraelTimes] IDF had adjusted zone in Khan Younis, ordering civilians to evacuate area where tunnel found; soldier dies, 2 others badly hurt in Gaza, apparently after inhaling toxic fumes
The bodies of five Israelis killed and taken hostage by terrorists on October 7, and brought back to Israel in a special operation on Wednesday, were recovered from a tunnel located in the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in the southern Gaza Strip, the military said Thursday.
The Israel Defense Forces adjusted the zone ahead of the operation in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis and ordered Palestinian civilians in part of it, where the tunnel was located, to temporarily evacuate.
In the operation on Wednesday, the bodies of Ravid Katz, 51, Oren Goldin, 33, Maya Goren, 56, Sgt. Kiril Brodski, 19, and Staff Sgt. Tomer Yaakov Ahimas, 20, were recovered by IDF special forces and members of the Shin Bet security agency.
All five were previously declared dead by the IDF. They were all killed on October 7 and their bodies were dragged into Gaza by Hamas-led terrorists.
The IDF said that in recent weeks it obtained intelligence, including from Shin Bet interrogations of detained terrorists in Gaza, on the location of the tunnel where Hamas was holding the bodies of the hostages.
The tunnel was 200 meters long and about 20 meters deep and featured several rooms, according to the military. It took combat engineers several hours to dig down to reach the tunnel.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari in a press conference said the “complex” operation to recover the bodies took place in “the heart of Khan Younis,” where the military had operated and withdrawn from earlier this year.
“The troops raided the area and reached an underground site based on accurate intelligence, from several sources… where they found the five hostages hidden behind a wall in the tunnel,” Hagari said.
To enable the operation, the IDF’s 98th Division launched a new offensive in Khan Younis earlier this week. Hagari said the troops have killed numerous terror operatives amid the offensive so far.
The bodies of the hostages were brought back to Israel on Wednesday afternoon and taken to be identified. Once they were identified, the families of the hostages were notified.
There are now thought to be 111 hostages in Gaza, including the remains of 39 confirmed dead by the IDF, out of the 251 people abducted during the Hamas onslaught nearly 300 days ago.
Brodski and Ahimas were killed while serving in the forward command team of Col. Asaf Hamami, the commander of the Gaza Division’s Southern Brigade, who was also killed on October 7 as they tried to fight off dozens of Hamas terrorists invading Kibbutz Nirim. The bodies of all three were abducted to Gaza, where Hamami’s remains are believed to still be.
Goldin, who ran Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak’s mechanic shop, was among the first members of the community’s civilian defense team to respond to the attack. He was killed in the fighting and his body was taken to Gaza.
Goren, from Nir Oz, was setting up the kibbutz’s kindergarten on the morning of October 7 when the Hamas attack erupted and she was snatched by the terrorists. Her husband, Avner, also 56, was murdered inside the couple’s home during the attack.
Katz was a member of the Kibbutz Nir Oz security team, who battled the terrorists on October 7, before being killed and his body abducted.
Troops operating in Gaza have managed so far to rescue seven hostages alive, along with the remains of 24 other captives, including the five recovered Wednesday and three abductees mistakenly killed by the military as they tried to escape their captors.
HAMAS ROCKETS KILL TWO PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS
Rockets launched by Hamas on Wednesday from the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in the Gaza Strip struck a United Nations-run school in Khan Younis, killing and wounding Palestinians, the IDF said.
According to the IDF, it received reports from international aid organizations that two civilians were killed and several more were wounded after the rockets struck UNRWA’s Al-Qarara school.
The IDF said the rockets were fired by Hamas from the humanitarian zone, but failed to cross the border into Israel, falling short on the school in Khan Younis.
In a move coordinated by COGAT and the World Health Organization, the wounded Palestinians were taken to a field hospital run by the International Medical Corps in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah, the IDF added.
More than 60 targets were struck by Israeli Air Force fighter jets, attack helicopters and drones in the Gaza Strip over the past day, the military said earlier Wednesday, as ground troops continued operations in Khan Younis, Rafah, and the Netzarim Corridor area.
In Khan Younis, the IDF said troops with the 98th Division killed numerous gunmen and destroyed some 50 sites belonging to terror groups over the past day.
SOLDIER DIES APPARENTLY AFTER INHALING TOXIC FUMES IN GAZA
A soldier died and two more were seriously hurt overnight in a non-combat incident in the southern Gaza Strip that is under Military Police investigation, the IDF announced Thursday.
The soldier was named as Staff Sgt. Noam Douek, 19, of the 401st Armored Brigade’s 9th Battalion, from Kiryat Motzkin. Two more soldiers of the 9th Battalion were listed in serious condition.
The military suspected that Douek was killed and the other soldiers were hurt by toxic fumes from a generator in the room they were sleeping in overnight.
Further details were under investigation by the Military Police.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 329. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and a Defense Ministry civilian contractor.
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[ARABNEWS] Israeli forces advanced deeper into some towns on the eastern side of Khan Younis 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... on Thursday, hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US politicians he was actively engaged in bringing hostages home.
Fighting in recent days has centered around the eastern towns of Bani Suaila, al-Zanna, and al-Karara, where the army said on Wednesday it had found the bodies of five Israelis who were killed in Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... ’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel and held in Gaza since.
Hamas murderous Moslems took more than 250 hostages in the early morning raid into southern Israel and killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel retaliated by vowing to eradicate Hamas in Gaza in a nine-month war that has killed more than 39,000 Paleostinians, Gaza health officials say.
Several were maimed in the eastern towns during Israeli tank and aerial shelling, while an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... east of Khan Younis killed four people, Paleostinian health officials said.
Israeli bombardment intensified in several areas in Rafah, near the border with Egypt, as tanks operated north, west and in the town center, residents and medics said. Several Paleostinians were also maimed in Israeli fire earlier on Thursday.
The Israeli military said forces operating in Khan Younis killed dozens of murderous Moslems and dismantled around 50 military infrastructures, while it continued activities in Rafah, killing two Death Eaters.
In a speech to the US Congress, Netanyahu said his government was actively involved in seeking the release of remaining hostages and was confident they would succeed.
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[ARABNEWS] Iranian authorities on Thursday executed Kurdish man Kamran Sheikheh, the last surviving defendant in a case linked to a Moslemholy man’s killing in 2008, rights groups said.
Sheikheh, one of seven men first arrested in the case more than 14 years ago, was put to death in Urmia prison in northwestern Iran, the Norway-based Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... Human Rights (IHR) and US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said in separate statements.
Sheikheh’s six co-defendants, also members of Iran’s Kurdish minority, had all been executed in separate hangings since November 2023.
Amnesty International has said they had been sentenced to death "in a grossly unfair trial" that had been "marred by allegations of torture and other ill-treatment."
The seven were convicted on the capital crime of corruption on earth.
IHR described Sheikheh as a "political prisoner" who had been sentenced to death "based on torture-tainted confessions in a grossly unfair trial."
The execution "was unlawful according to international law and the Islamic republic’s own laws, amounting to an extrajudicial killing," said IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam.
HRANA said that the proceedings related to the killing of a holy man of a mosque in the northwestern city of Mahabad in September 2008.
Sheikheh and the six others were arrested in connection with the killing in January and February 2010 and sentenced to death in 2018.
Activists say that Iran’s use of the death penalty disproportionately targets members of the Kurdish and Baluch ethnic minorities in western and southeast Iran, who generally adhere to the Sunni strain of Islam rather than the Shiism otherwise dominant in Iran
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
[ARABNEWS] A boat with at least 45 refugees has capsized off the coast of Yemen’s Taiz on Wednesday night, and there are only four survivors, the UN refugee agency in Yemen said on Thursday.
[ARABNEWS] Belgian police have conducted 14 house searches in a terrorism investigation, the federal public prosecutor’s office said on Thursday, adding seven people were taken in for questioning.
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
