[IsraelTimes] Tunisian courts hand down prison sentences of up to 15 years to five defendants tied to a deadly May 2023 attack on a synagogue on the island of Djerba, one of their lawyers tells AFP.
The attack on the Ghriba synagogue left five people dead, not including the assailant, a National Guard officer, who was killed during the attack.
The dead killer was Wissam Khazri.
A student and the attacker’s fiancee, who were prosecuted for “complicity in homicide” and “membership in a terrorist group,” were sentenced to three and eight years in prison respectively, says Nizar Ayed, lawyer for several victims of the attack.
According to Ayed, the assailant acted “as a lone wolf.”
Not quite lone, if he had two henchpersons.
Two other defendants, whose exact roles were not disclosed, were sentenced to seven and 15 years’ imprisonment, with the heavier penalty given out because the defendant had fled justice, according to the lawyer. The assailant’s sister, currently out on bail, was sentenced to one year in prison.
Even less lone, with five henches altogether.
The defense for the accused will appeal, says Mustapha Mlaouah, the fiancée’s lawyer.
On May 9, 2023, the attacker killed three of his colleagues as well as two Jewish worshippers, Aviel Haddad, a 30-year-old Tunisian, and his cousin Benjamin, a 42-year-old French national.
He shot dead one colleague while working at the island’s port and then drove to the synagogue, about 20 kilometers away, where hundreds of people were taking part in the third day of an annual Jewish pilgrimage. There, he killed the two Jewish men and wounded several officers providing security, two of whom died later from their wounds.
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Troops arrest two suspected Boko Haram logistics suppliers in Yobe
By: Zagazola Makama
Troops of the Joint Task Force (JTF) North East under Operation Hadin Kai have arrested two suspected logistics suppliers to Boko Haram terrorists in Yobe State.
Troops of the Joint Task Force (JTF) North East under Operation Hadin Kai have arrested two suspected logistics suppliers to Boko Haram terrorists in Yobe State.
Security sources said the suspects were apprehended at about 12:00 p.m. on Feb. 15 during a snap checkpoint operation conducted by troops of the 233 Tank Battalion deployed at Rabangida in the Dapchi–Geidam general area.
The suspects were identified as Goni Abba, 30, and Ali Bukar, 30, both indigenes of Areyanari village in Yunusari Local Government Area of Yobe.
Items recovered from them included ₦33,150 in cash, one Android phone, and a blue tricycle with registration number TMW-426WB loaded with assorted foodstuffs and household supplies suspected to be intended for insurgents.
[IsraelTimes] Ahead of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, the Israeli military says it has begun an operation across the West Bank aimed at arresting Palestinians “advancing incitement and terror on social media.”
“In preparation for the blessed month of Ramadan, and as a step to ensure security and stability and combat terrorism, IDF troops have in recent days begun an operation across Judea and Samaria against elements advancing incitement and terror on social media networks,” says Lt. Col. Ella Waweya, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokeswoman, in a statement.
She says the operation is expected to continue throughout Ramadan, which begins tomorrow night and ends in late March.
“The message is clear: Ramadan is a month of family, community and unity. Do not allow terror organizations to ruin it for you, and do not be drawn after incitement on social media networks,” Waweya says.
As was the case last Ramadan, Israel will grant permits to 10,000 West Bank Palestinians — only males aged 55 and older, women at least 50 years old, and children aged 12 and below — to enter Jerusalem for Friday prayers on the Temple Mount during Ramadan.
Law enforcement came last week with a truck carrying large concrete blocks, placing them along a road directly adjacent to the Israeli side of the barrier, creating a buffer zone where only security forces are permitted to operate. As part of the same operation, Border Police began collecting security cameras in the area.
“The forces identified that there were a lot of cameras on poles pointed towards the direction of the barrier, that is to say, observing [the border],” a Border Police spokesman tells The Times of Israel.
According to the spokesman, the cameras were used to track the location of security forces, signaling whether the coast is clear for West Bank Palestinians to cross into Jerusalem.
The raid last week was launched as part of a larger operation to combat “infiltration, strengthen the barrier and change the security reality in the area,” police say in a statement.
“We’re creating another layer of protection in order to reinforce Israeli citizens’ security and allow us to operate with more freedom,” Ch. Supt. Eli Tubul, a Border Police officer involved in the operation, tells the Ynet news site. He says police are shifting gears from a “defensive” mode to an “offensive” one.
The Jerusalem District’s recently appointed commander, Deputy Commissioner Avshalom Peled, accompanied forces during the initial raid last week. Officers mapped the area and towed vehicles within the newly formed buffer zone.
In addition, Border Police and IDF soldiers seized weapons and arrested a suspect during a nighttime raid in Kafr Aqab, police announce today. Although it is a part of the Jerusalem municipality, the Palestinian neighborhood lies beyond the West Bank security barrier.
The operations come in the leadup to the month-long Muslim holiday of Ramadan, which has in the past seen escalations in the existing tensions between Israelis and Palestinians as Muslims from across Israel and the West Bank travel to Jerusalem to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The IDF does not immediately comment on the reports.
Shreim was reportedly shot and wounded near the security barrier separating Israel from the West Bank.
He was transferred in a Red Crescent ambulance to Qalqilya’s Darwish Nazzal governmental hospital, where he was declared dead, according to WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency.
Police still operate regularly in Tarabin al-Sana after the raid two months ago
Residents say officers launched tear gas near an elementary school, hurting students and forcing them to go home early. Police say they were responding to stone-throwing
[IsraelTimes] Fares Abu al-Hija, 32, allegedly carried out missions for figure he met via social media, including stashing phones in Haifa, photographing former minister’s home in Amikam
Prosecutors filed charges Monday against a man for allegedly gathering intelligence on former defense minister Yoav Gallant on behalf of an Iranian agent.
The defendant, Fares Abu al-Hija, 32, was arrested in late January after taking photos of streets near Gallant’s home in Amikam at the behest of his handler, according to the indictment.
A joint statement from the police and the Shin Bet security service said the defendant is from the Galilee village of Kaukab Abu al-Hija, about an hour’s drive north of Gallant’s residence.
He first came into contact with the Iranian agent on the Telegram messaging app while searching for work in August last year, according to the indictment.
Between October and January, al-Hija carried out requests made by the person, who called himself "Martin," even though he suspected he was a foreign agent, the statement said.
According to prosecutors, among the tasks al-Hija completed were to purchase and then hide cellphones and chargers at various locations around Haifa, activate the devices, install communication apps on them, record where they were stashed, and then pass on the information to his handler. He was also asked to take an envelope containing the password to a cryptocurrency account to a location in Zichron Yaakov, and to photograph a cafe in Tel Aviv.
Al-Hija was paid in cryptocurrency to carry out the intelligence-gathering missions. In return for taking photos and videos of the cafe, he earned $1,000 in cryptocurrency, according to the indictment.
In January, al-Hija was asked to photograph Gallant’s home. He was arrested at the location shortly after having sent the photos to his handler.
He was indicted at the Haifa District Court on the charge of contact with a foreign agent. Prosecutors requested that he be kept in jug until the end of legal proceedings against him.
Gallant was the defense minister from 2022 until 2024, when he was fired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over political differences. In the past, he served as head of the Israel Defense Forces Southern Command.
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[IsraelTimes] Cabinet secretary does not specify start date for 2-month period, echoes PM in saying Hamas must give up AK-47 rifles; IDF: Troops kill 6 more terrorists from Rafah tunnels
Israel plans to afford Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... a 60-day period to disarm, and if it does not, the Israeli military will go back to war 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 a rusty 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, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday.
Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs made the statement a day after the premier asserted that the terror group must give up its small arms as part of the disarmament process, including its AK-47 rifles — after some reports that the terror group might be allowed to hold onto its rifles for now.
Speaking in Jerusalem to the Besheva Group conference, Fuchs said that the Trump Administration had asked for a 60-day period, and "we are respecting that."
Fuchs clarified that he is unsure when the 60-day period starts, but it may begin with Thursday’s Board of Peace conference.
During that time, Hamas "will have to give up all of its weapons," including rifles, he said, asserting that the terror group’s AK-47s "will be taken from them entirely."
"We will evaluate it," he said. "If it works, great. If not, then the IDF will have to complete the mission."
He added that it was a "reasonable estimate" that before Israel’s next election — which is currently set for October but could be moved up to June — either Hamas will have given up its weapons or the IDF will be in the midst of an intensive new military campaign in Gaza.
Fuchs said there were many Gaza tunnels that also needed to be destroyed as part of the process.
"Today, whoever plows the fields in Be’eri sees the sea," he says of the Gaza border kibbutz invaded and brutalized by Hamas on October 7, 2023. "There is barely a building left standing in the Gaza Strip, but the work is not yet completed."
A day earlier, Netanyahu said that disarmament means Hamas "must give up its weapons, not [just] its main weapons," asserting that "the one that does the most damage is called an AK-47."
"That’s what they used in the massacre of October 7," the prime minister said, adding that the group still holds some 60,000 rifles in Gaza.
A report in The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... last week said Hamas would be allowed to keep "some small arms," at least initially, while surrendering all weapons that are "capable of striking Israel," according to a draft plan drawn up by officials involved in the US-led Board of Peace.
According to the report, a team including US envoys Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Nickolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace’s Gaza envoy, plans on sharing the document in question with Hamas in the coming weeks.
IDF: TROOPS KILL 6 TERRORISTS FROM RAFAH TUNNELS Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit. Y'got the wrong guy! he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed... inside Gaza, the IDF on Sunday said it had killed six more Hamas terror operatives who have been holed up for months in a tunnel in southern Gaza’s Rafah, on the Israeli side of the ceasefire line.
Dozens of Hamas operatives trapped on the Israeli side of the so-called "Yellow Line" dividing Gaza in accordance with the October 2025 ceasefire agreement were believed by the military to have been there since the collapse of a previous truce in the Strip in early 2025.
The IDF has reported killing or capturing some 50 of them in recent months.
According to the military, troops of the 7th Armored Brigade carried out several "significant actions" in the tunnels in the eastern Rafah area in the past week, "in order to eliminate additional holy warriors residing there."
A week ago, the IDF said troops exchanged fire with several button men who emerged from a tunnel in the area.
In an update, the military said that on Sunday, during scans of the area, it was confirmed that three button men were killed in that exchange of fire, and the bodies of six more were located after they were "eliminated as part of the operations carried out along the tunnel route."
The IDF said it is continuing to operate in the area "to eliminate the holy warriors in the tunnel routes."
Elsewhere in the Strip, the IDF said late Sunday night that it struck terror operatives who engaged in "suspicious activity on the ground" and approached troops in the northern Gaza Strip earlier in the day.
According to the IDF, troops of the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade identified the operatives on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line. The army said that in addition to "carrying out suspicious activity on the ground," the operatives approached the soldiers "in a manner that posed an immediate threat."
After they were identified, the Israeli Air Force struck and "eliminated two of the holy warriors to remove the threat," the IDF said. It did not specify what happened to the others.
Since the start of the ceasefire in October, the IDF has said it has killed dozens of terror operatives and other "suspects" who have crossed the Yellow Line and approached troops. Such incidents have taken place on a near-daily basis.
The tobacco was hidden inside cans of vine leaves that were being imported into Gaza via the Kerem Shalom border crossing, the ministry says.
Members of the ministry’s Crossing Points Authority and the Coordination and Liaison Administration for Gaza located the contraband during a routine inspection of the goods at the crossing.
According to the ministry, the truck was carrying a shipment of food purchased by an Israeli company that had been approved under a mechanism for the entry of aid by the private sector.
“Following the smuggling attempt, the truck and all of its contents were confiscated and transferred for further handling by customs and other authorities,” the ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories says.
COGAT chief Maj. Gen. Yoram Halevy also ordered “the immediate suspension of the company’s approval to bring aid into the Gaza Strip until further notice.”
“The decision was made in light of the severity of the case and in order to preserve the integrity of the aid entry mechanism, while preventing its exploitation for prohibited purposes,” COGAT adds.
Israel has banned the entry of cigarettes and other tobacco products into Gaza during the war, with officials saying that such products, when smuggled illegally, are sold for high prices on the black market and heavily taxed by Hamas.
[IsraelTimes] Israel will only be able to guarantee Hamas’s disarmament through Israeli military efforts, Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz tells Jewish leaders at a gathering of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
“In Gaza, Hamas is reorganizing and rebuilding. The world must understand: Hamas and Gaza must not only be completely demilitarized for the sake of Israeli security, but for the sake of any positive regional process. They will seek to intercept any future normalization efforts, just like they did on October 7,” says the former defense minister and IDF chief.
US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace “is indeed important for shaping the day-after, but within the Yellow Line, Hamas has strengthened its terror regime for months. Ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake, in the end, it will only be our brave sons and daughters who will finish the job,” he adds.
Regarding Iran, Gantz insists that “in the coming days, or at most, in the coming weeks, the world must stand united in toppling the Iranian ayatollahs’ regime.”
If it does not, the Iranians “will continue to murder others and their own people” and “we will be pushing away regional peace, and a better future for our children, that we all strive for,” he continues, stating that “now is the time for decisive action.”
“Eighty years ago, the United States freed Europe from the Nazi regime. Today, President Trump has the opportunity to free the Middle East from the terror of the ayatollahs’ regime and be remembered forever for it,” Gantz declares.
[IsraelTimes] A Hezbollah operative involved in restoring the terror group’s military infrastructure in southern Lebanon was killed in an Israeli drone strike this morning, the military says.
He was targeted in the town of Hanin.
The IDF says the operative’s activities were a violation of the November 2024 ceasefire deal between Israel and Lebanon.
[IsraelTimes] A Hezbollah operative involved in restoring the terror group’s infrastructure was killed in an Israeli drone strike in the southern Lebanon town of Tallouseh this evening, the military says.
The IDF says the operative served “as a local representative of the Hezbollah terror organization in the village,” and was actively “engaged in attempts to restore military infrastructure.”
As part of his role, he was responsible for liaising between the terror group and the residents of Tallouseh “on economic and military matters,” according to the military.
The IDF says the operative also “acted to seize private property for terror purposes.”
His actions were a violation of the November 2024 ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, the military adds.
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