[ShabelleMedia] At least two children were killed during a fierce overnight clash between U.S.-trained Somali special forces known as Danab and a senior al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... member in the Buladul-Amiin area of Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region, residents told Shabelle Radio.
The confrontation reportedly erupted when Danab commandos launched a raid targeting the residence of a man identified as Mohammed Abukar, alleged to be a member of the al-Qaeda-linked bully boy group al-Shabaab.
According to an eyewitness who spoke with Shabelle Radio, Abukar opened fire on the troops and managed to escape, though he was reportedly injured. A maiden of tender years, said to be his daughter, was maimed in the exchange, while two children, believed to be his grandchildren, were killed.
The Danab unit reportedly arrived in the area via helicopter from the Balidoogle airbase, a key U.S. and Somali military installation located roughly 90 kilometers northwest of Mogadishu.
The full extent of casualties on the side of the Danab forces remains unclear.
Danab forces, who receive specialized training and support from the United States, frequently carry out targeted raids against high-ranking al-Shabaab operatives, as part of ongoing efforts by the Somali federal government to dismantle the bully boy group’s leadership.
[Garowe] The ISIS snuffies in the northeastern state of Somalia — Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , are increasingly losing ground as the region pulls the final assault on the group, whose activities had raised concerns among stakeholders, including the US State Department of the US.
Last week, the Puntland security forces launched the third and final phase against ISIS bully boys, with local authorities exuding confidence in defeating the group, which is limited to the Bari region within the Cal-Miskaad mountains.
Just upon the launch of the third phase, the fighting in Miraale valley, one of three areas where the snuffies are hiding, was reportedly intense. The terrain appears to be challenging. In Curaar valley, the snuffies launched an attack on government forces four nights ago, losing 7 men.
No fighting has been reported in the vicinity of Karinka Qandala to the north of Tog Jaceel valley, where snuffies are still suspected to be holed up. But to a large extent, the snuffies have lost ground in all aspects, including some of the strategic forward operating bases.
Security analysts believe the snuffies have stocked food and weapons in multiple locations in an attempt to prolong the war. The motivation level of Puntland forces is reportedly still high and could prove decisive, though it’s difficult to say how long the operation will last, analysts say.
Further, it is now clear that the majority of ISIS fighters are from outside Somalia, including top wanted individuals. The fact majority of them are foreigners eventually could work against the snuffies as they will struggle to mix in with the locals.
Another advantage is that locals are now more confident to report ISIS activities to the security forces. It’s crucial that Puntland builds on that and not squanders public support. Members of the public work closely with security teams on the frontlines by providing intelligence reports.
However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... the whereabouts of ISIS leaders are not known. Emir Abdulkadir is unlikely to be on the frontlines, which requires him to move regularly, given his age, security sources believe. They assess that he is in a different zone where there is no fighting, or may have left Somalia well before the military operations started.
The speculation is that he is either in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... or 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... , where ISIS could exploit that country’s civil war. Last year, the US released a statement confirming his death, but the reports would later be reversed following intense scrutiny by the US Africa Command.
But the final assault against the group has significantly helped the group to control strategic bases, including an explosives factory where the group depends on for manufacturing and assembling weapons. The group controls sections of the Bari region, though.
[MBCPATHWAY] More than 240 Christians were massacred in attacks on villages in Plateau and Benue states during Lent and Easter, some as they worshiped, news agencies and religious liberty advocates reported.
In the latest attacks, suspected Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... holy warriors killed at least 72 Christians in villages in Ukum and Logo counties in Benue April 18-20, International Christian Concern (ICC) reported April 22. Thousands fled, added to the many displaced in the region, and the corpse count may rise as authorities search the surrounding forests, ICC said.
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[UNDERSTANDINGWAR.ORG] Nigeria. Salafi-jihadi factions are strengthening in Nigeria outside the typical hotspots in the northeastern parts of the country. These factions in north-central and northwestern Nigeria have ties to 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... and the al Qaeda and Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... affiliates in West Africa. These factions could facilitate these groups' activities around the Gulf of Guinea and the Sahel.
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[UNDERSTANDINGWAR.ORG] Benin ...Benin, a French-speaking West African nation, that they put where Dahomey used to be. It is a birthplace of voodoo and zombies. In Abomey, Dahomey's former capital, the Historical Museum occupies two royal palaces with bas-reliefs recounting the kingdom’s past and a throne mounted on human skulls. To the north, Pendjari National Park offers safaris with elephants, hippos and lions and tigers and bears, oh my!... . Al Qaeda's affiliate in the Sahel carried out its deadliest-ever attack in Benin as it continues to increase the lethality of its operations in Benin throughout 2025. The latest attacks are significantly more lethal despite no increase in frequency. Benin is a key US security partner in West Africa. Jama'at Nusrat al Islam wa al Moslemeen's (JNIM's)
…in Arabic it’s called JNIM and in French is GSIM. Recent estimates of its size range from 2,000-6,000 turbans…
growing strength in Benin
…that range was last year. That sounds like there may be more now…
undermines US efforts to contain the Salafi-jihadi insurgency in the Sahel and to demonstrate to African states that the West is a more effective and reliable security partner than Russia.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Hand-to-hand confrontations broke out between recruits from the Saudi-backed ''Dera al-Watan'' factions and coppers from the city of Qishn in Mahrah province, eastern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... Informed sources reported that the reason for these festivities was the police's seizure of a truck loaded with 300 cartons of cycle of violences and spare parts on Tuesday. The truck was heading to Socotra via the Qishn port, west of al-Ghaydah city.
The sources explained that one of the ''Dera al-Watan'' recruits intended to send the shipment to a merchant in Socotra, and the police tried to confiscate it, but the ''Dera al-Watan'' recruits strongly objected, which led to the matter escalating into verbal altercations and fistfights.
These arguments almost turned into armed confrontations near the port, the sources added.
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[Regnum] Russian special services have identified and detained 45 people for involvement in the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region. This was stated in an interview with TASS by the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu.
According to Shoigu, Ukrainian military intelligence uses terrorists from international organizations and migrants for high-profile attacks, such as the attack on Crocus in 2024. Russian intelligence agencies identified and detained 45 people involved in this terrorist attack.
On the evening of March 22, 2024, terrorists stormed Crocus City Hall, where a concert was to be held. They opened fire on guests and staff, then set a fire. As a result of the terrorist attack, 144 people were killed and 551 were injured.
The Secretary of the Security Council emphasized that threats from terrorist organizations that seek to establish cells on Russian territory, especially in the North Caucasus, still remain. Western countries use terrorism to contain the Russian Federation in Central and South Asia, the Middle East and other regions.
In 2024, more than 200 terrorist attacks were prevented, including 14 in educational institutions and public places. More than 1,800 terrorists were detained, 42 attackers were neutralized. More than 120 thousand materials of terrorist content were removed, accounts worth more than 230 million rubles were blocked.
[GatewayPundit] What began as a typical Easter Sunday at a local playground in Upper Franconia, Germany, quickly descended into chaos and violence, offering a grim illustration of the ever-increasing tensions in a country plagued by the failures of multiculturalism and mass immigration of people from alien, anti-Western cultures.
In a harrowing incident caught on video that has since gone viral on alternative media, a 41-year-old German mother and her newborn baby were brutally assaulted—first by a 12-year-old Syrian girl who attacked her six-year-old son, and later by the girl’s Islamist mother and older sister in a brutal escalation that left the infant hospitalized.
According to local reports and eyewitness accounts, the ordeal began when the German boy was viciously attacked by the Syrian girl, who reportedly choked, beat, and sat on him in an unprovoked act of aggression. When the boy’s mother tried to intervene—holding her 12-day-old baby in her arms—the confrontation initially de-escalated.
Unfortunately for the German family, peace was fleeting. Roughly twenty minutes later, the Syrian girl returned with her mother and an older sister. The three then launched a frenzied attack on the German woman, punches and kicks flying.
In the midst of this assault, the infant—barely two weeks old—was injured and had to be taken to a hospital under suspicion of a concussion.
A 20-second video recorded by the mother moments before the attack captures the Syrian woman approaching with unmistakable hostility. Though the actual violence occurs off-camera, the screams of terrified children and adults are chilling. The mother, trusting her instincts, began filming out of what she later described as a “bad gut feeling.”
This was no ordinary playground scuffle. This was a targeted, racially and culturally charged assault against a German family in their own homeland—by those who were welcomed in as so-called ‘asylum seekers.’
But perhaps most shocking of all is what followed: rather than a full-throated investigation into the violent migrant attackers, the German state turned its attention to the victims. The father of the injured children, who had posted the video to Facebook to shed light on the ordeal, is now under investigation for “suspected sedition.”
His mobile phone has been seized by authorities, and he is accused of violating data protection laws and potentially inciting hatred, merely for showing the truth of what happened to his family.
Welcome to modern Germany, where the truth is treated as more dangerous than the imported violence itself.
The press office of the Upper Franconia Police Headquarters confirmed the ongoing investigations, not against the assailants, but against the German father. “In addition, comments and contributions from the owner are also examined on suspicion of sedition,” a police spokesperson stated. This is the same state that systematically ignores the growing pattern of migrant criminality while punishing its own citizens for speaking out.
In their home countries woman and children are the lowest ranking social stratum in a violent and abusive societal system.
In the West they are the lowest ranking members of the highest ranking social group, so they can safely vent their frustration by meting out degrading violence on members of the majority population.
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[REGNUM] For the second week, organised attacks on prisons and their staff have continued in France. This unprecedented phenomenon is already being called extraordinary.
It demonstrates the catastrophic state of the country's penitentiary system. While the authorities are looking for a solution, the employees of the relevant institutions are in fear and despondency.
AMRA LIBERATED
In recent years, drug trafficking has increased dramatically in France. Statistics show that between 2023 and 2024, drug trafficking in the country increased by 130%. This puts it in first place in Europe in terms of illegal sales and use of drugs.
Accordingly, the number and influence of organized crime groups is growing. These structures have gone beyond the territories in which they previously operated, and are gradually taking over more and more cities, and the population is beginning to feel the effects of their activities.
And, of course, the process of expansion turns into tragedies. In particular, shootouts become part of everyday life in many cities.
As a result of such showdowns, many civilians have died over the past three years. And the executors of the "orders" for murder are often minors. The situation continues to worsen every year.
A parliamentary commission to study the issue of drug trafficking, created in 2023, found that drug trafficking has increased fivefold in recent decades.
However, the real marker for officials and society, showing how powerful the French mafia has become, was the escape from custody of Mohamed Amr, the leader of one of the criminal groups.
The convoy escorting Amr from the courthouse to prison was attacked by a group of unknown assailants. After a shootout in which two guards were killed and three were seriously wounded, the criminal managed to escape and leave the country.
Amr was then detained in Romania and is awaiting transfer back to France. But the authorities wondered whether the same situation could happen again, with the same or another prisoner.
DARMANIN'S LAW
Since December 2024, the country has been developing a law to combat drug trafficking. Its initiator was Gerald Darmanin, who at that time took over as head of the Ministry of Justice.
The main point of the bill was the idea of placing dangerous leaders of criminal groups in specially protected prisons. According to Darmanin, it is also important to deprive criminals of the opportunity to communicate with the outside world. To this end, the draft provides for stricter rules for searching prisoners' personal belongings and confiscating their mobile phones.
The lower house of the French parliament has already voted for the bill, and its final approval is expected on April 28-29.
Representatives of the French criminal world were predictably unhappy with the upcoming innovations. In response to their adoption, a series of attacks on correctional institutions and penitentiary system employees began on April 13.
The criminals set fire to their personal transport and damage the housing of prison employees. They shoot firearms at the walls, doors and windows of places of detention, using Kalashnikov assault rifles.
Of particular concern to the staff are the constant threats that either come in the form of ominous messages or are made directly on the streets when encountering strangers.
DDPF
Interior Minister Bruno Retaillo announced statistics on April 23: 65 attacks were recorded, including attempts that were prevented.
Responsibility for these crimes is claimed by members of the Telegram group "Defense of the Rights of French Prisoners" (DDPF). According to them, the conditions of serving sentences are very difficult due to prison overcrowding.
Thus, according to data as of March 1, correctional institutions in France were filled to 131%. In addition, as members of the DDPF say, the procedure for searching prisoners is humiliating for human dignity.
In an attempt to determine who is leading the DDPF group and these attacks, police have put forward the main theory behind the surge in violence: criminal underworld revenge for the new drug trafficking law.
Moreover, the offenders began to have imitators who had no direct connection with them: this is how one of the cars burned down on April 22 in the vicinity of Lyon.
Experts emphasize that previously, organized crime tried to avoid confrontation—and especially direct armed clashes—with the state machine in general and law enforcement agencies in particular.
Now, however, criminals are openly conducting coordinated military operations, which suggests that the mafia has declared some kind of war on the authorities and the police.
PRISONERS ARE DEPRESSED
The question being discussed in the socio-political space is: how did the situation get to the point where it became possible for large criminal forces to exist that feel quite confident and are not afraid to challenge the state?
One of the reasons cited is the weakening of state political and social institutions: a reduction in programs to work with the population, the abolition of the institution of local police officers, a decline in the quality of education, etc.
To this must be added a deep economic crisis with no prospects for its resolution in the near future.
All these factors contribute to the deterioration of the social atmosphere and living conditions. And the resulting vacuum is filled by criminals, who expand their activities and recruit new supporters.
According to both Darmanin and Prime Minister François Bayrou, such a blatant reaction from the criminal world demonstrates the correctness of the government's actions in tackling the drug trafficking problem.
The authorities promise to take measures to protect the employees of the penitentiary system soon. In the meantime, employees of places of detention complain of depression and stress, and each institution is trying to introduce measures to protect its employees.
[TOWNHALL] Attorney General Pam Bondi highlighted two cases in which federal authorities arrested two judges for allegedly trying to shield illegal immigrants colonists from deportation.
The two cases occurred over the past few days in Wisconsin and New Mexico. During an appearance on Fox News' "America Reports," Bondi commented on Judge Joel Cano and his wife's arrest in New Mexico.
The couple is accused of harboring an undocumented Democrat suspected of being a member of the Tren de Aragua street gang in their home.
Cano is facing obstruction charges, Bondi explained. ''He took one of the TdA members' cell phones himself, took it, beat it with a hammer, destroyed it, and then walked the pieces to a city dumpster to dispose of it to protect him.''
His wife is also facing charges for destroying evidence, the attorney general said.
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Wrt Cano in NM. The TDA guy is said to have had two or more pix of decapitated victims on his phone.
"Could be your grand kids."
It's how they roll.
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The Wisc. "Judge" - beastly troll that she is - is just Bat Shit crazy. Allegedly, the TDA in New Mexico was hired by the judge's wife for handyman work around the house and stayed on. You thinking what I'm thinking? Just how handy was he?
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Wisconsin judge may have had authority to grant her illegal sanctuary in her court until ICE came back with a judicial warrant - standard administrative warrant would only be valid on public property and it might be arguable that a courtroom is not exactly public property under the law. ICE could have just stayed outside and arrested him when he left or waited for their judicial warrant and gone in and gotten him. We'll have to wait and see how it unfolds but I will be surprised if the charges against the judge stand.
[ABCnews] Faustin Nsabumukunzi, an alleged Rwandan genocide leader, was arrested in the Hamptons on immigration fraud charges.
An alleged leader of violence during the Rwandan genocide in 1994 has been living in an exclusive enclave on Long Island as a beekeeper. He was arrested Thursday and accused of concealing his role in horrific violence and human rights violations by making false statements in his applications for a visa, green card and for U.S. citizenship, according to the Justice Department.
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[IsraelTimes] Unusually, US federal agents involved in investigation of series of incidents in which homes and Jewish institutions were targeted with messages such as ‘F*** Israel,’ ‘Intifada’
US federal and state agents in Michigan raided at least three different home addresses connected to pro-Paleostinian activists Wednesday, as part of what authorities said was an ongoing investigation into more than a year of the group targeting homes and businesses, including prominent Jewish locations.
The raids — at homes in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Canton — were not tied to immigration issues or on-campus demonstrations against Israel that have taken place over the last year and a half, according to a front man for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
"These search warrants were not investigative of protest activity on the campus of the University of Michigan nor the Diag encampment," the front man, Danny Wimmer, said in a statement, referring to the location of Michigan’s anti-Israel student encampment last year. "Today’s search warrants are in furtherance of our investigation into multi-jurisdictional acts of vandalism."
The raids, during which some people were detained but not arrested, followed acts of vandalism at the homes of members of the University of Michigan’s Board of Regents, whom pro-Paleostinian activists want to cut university ties with Israel.
Late Thursday, Nessel’s office provided a list of the vandalism incidents the raids were investigating. The incidents included one in December, when a group of protesters threw rocks through the window of Jordan Acker, a Jewish regent, while he and his children were home in the heavily Jewish bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... suburb of Huntington Woods, and left pro-Paleostinian graffiti on his car. Another incident from June 2024 targeted Acker’s law office.
Another incident, on the first anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... onslaught, targeted the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit in Bloomfield Hills with graffiti reading "Intifada" and "Fuck Israel." Non-Jewish regents at the university and the university president have also been targeted by protesters in their own homes. Other graffiti, targeting a predominantly Jewish country club, made explicit references to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, which had hosted an event at the space the day before. The oldest incidents dated back to February 2024; the most recent occurred in March of this year.
A viral video showed officers breaking down the door of a home. Nessel’s office said Thursday that officers broke down the door "following more than an hour of police efforts to negotiate entry to satisfy the court-authorized search warrant."
Pro-Paleostinian activists at the university have been engaged in extreme tactics to pressure its leadership to divest from Israel.
Acker declined to comment on the raids on Wednesday. He previously called the targeting of his own home "terrorism" and "Klan-like."
The involvement of federal agents in investigating local vandalism is unusual. An attorney representing several University of Michigan protesters told the Detroit Free Press that she believed the raids showed that Nessel’s office was collaborating with the Trump administration, which has cracked down on pro-Paleostinian protesters and schools where they have been active and dispatched federal immigration authorities to arrest non-citizen student activists.
"Everyone who was raided has taken part in protests and has some relationship to the University of Michigan," said the attorney, Liz Jacob of the Sugar Law Center in Detroit. "We are totally convinced that, but for their viewpoints, these students would not have been targeted."
On Instagram, a pro-Paleostinian collective at the university said they were being targeted by "zionist state AG Dana Nessel," who is Jewish, and who they accused of working with Trump to "repress pro-Paleostinian speech." Online, other pro-Paleostinian groups attempted to link the raids with the high-profile detentions of activists Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk on other campuses.
The University of Michigan, which has large Jewish and Arab American student populations, has taken more aggressive action against protesters since US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... ’s reelection. In February, it suspended a leading pro-Paleostinian student group for two years, in part over its demonstration at a regent’s home.
The school also announced last month, amid pressure from the Trump administration, that it would do away with its flagship Diversity, Equity and Inclusion program. The school had previously fired a senior DEI staffer who allegedly made antisemitic comments at a conference.
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It is the first major success for the Indian security forces which has launched an operation to eliminate the terrorists behind the recent Pahalgam incident where 26 civilians were killed.
Altaf Lalli held a senior leadership position within the LeT, making him a high-value target for Indian security forces. As a top commander, he was reportedly involved in planning and executing various militant operations in the region.
TERRORISTS HOUSES DESTROYED
Meanwhile, the houses of two LeT terrorists allegedly involved in the Pahalgam attack were destroyed in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday night in a blast.
The blast occurred when the officials were conducting searches inside the houses of two LeT terrorists Adil Hussain Thokar and Asif Sheikh.
Thokar, a resident of south Kashmir's Anantnag district, is one of the key accused in Tuesday's Pahalgam massacre, while Sheikh, resident of Tral in Pulwama district, is suspected to be involved in the conspiracy of the attack.
The explosives resulted in the destruction of the houses.
On the other hand, Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi has landed in in Kashmir on Friday to review the situation. The officials said Army commander, Northern Command, Lt Gen MV Suchindra Kumar, accompanied the Army Chief.
The Chief of Armed Staff (COAS) would carry out a comprehensive review of the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir, while top Army commanders will brief him about the security situation and steps taken in the aftermath of Tuesday's attack, PTI reported citing officials.
The tensions between India and Pakistan are high as both countries have announced the suspension of important treaties and agreements signed to resolve conflicts. While New Delhi has announced the suspension of the Indus Water Treaty, Islamabad has announced the scrapping of trade activities and closed airspace for India.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Police says that an armed terror operative affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad has been arrested in Qalqilya, in the West Bank, during a joint operation with the IDF, Shin Bet, and the police’s Lahav 433 major crimes unit.
In a statement, the police say that the detained terror suspect had been en route to carry out “operational activities” at the time of his arrest.
During the joint raid on the terror cell, police say that troops seized several M16 rifles.
In addition to his affiliation with the Islamic Jihad, police say that the detained terror operative has also cooperated with Hamas in the West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian media reports that Israeli troops arrested four Palestinians last night in the West Bank city of Qalqilya who were released as part of the recent ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas.
The detainees — three men and one woman — are identified as Abdallah Al-Walwil, Sameh Shubaki, Maysara Afaneh, and Margaret Al-Ra’i.
There has been no official response from Israel regarding the reports.
This is the first reported instance of Israel rearresting individuals released in the recent deal.
Israel released close to 2,000 Palestinian security prisoners during a ceasefire between January and March, in exchange for the release from Gaza of 30 hostages and the bodies of eight slain captives.
[IsraelTimes] Israel has used artificial intelligence tools to target Hamas leaders amid the war in Gaza, according to a report in the New York Times.
The report opens with a strike at the end of October 2023 that targeted Ibrahim Biari, the commander of Hamas’s Central Jabalia Battalion, who the newspaper says the Israeli military was able to locate by using an AI-infused audio tool to track where he was making phone calls from.
The Israel Defense Forces said the strike that killed Biari, in which dozens of civilians were said to have been killed, targeted a Hamas tunnel complex under the densely populated camp. The incident is being investigated by the military.
In addition to concerns over civilian casualties, Israeli and US officials quoted by the New York Times say there were also instances in which the AI technology resulted in mistaken identifications and arrested.
The report says that Israel employed AI to identify partly obscured or wounded faces using facial recognition, create lists of possible targets and make an Arabic chatbot to scan and analyze text messages and social media, with many of these technologies created in a partnership between Military Intelligence’s Unit 8200 and reservists employed at major leading tech firms known as “The Studio.”
Additionally, Israel reportedly also used the same audio tool that helped locate Biari as part of its efforts to find hostages held in tunnels beneath Gaza, with a pair of Israeli officers saying it has been sharpened over time to more accurately locate people.
[IsraelTimes] No reports of injuries or damage in overnight attack, which prompted the issuing of an early warning alert to a much wider area
The Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... launched a ballistic missile at Israel early Saturday morning, which the military said was successfully intercepted by air defenses.
The missile was shot down before crossing the country’s borders, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
There were no reports of injuries or damage in the attack.
Sirens had sounded in Beersheba and the surrounding area in southern Israel. An early alert warning was issued to a much wider area, in the latest apparent malfunction of a new system to alert civilians of long-range missile attacks via a push notification on their phones.
The Houthis did not immediately claim responsibility for the overnight attack, which came a few days after a missile launched by the rebel group set off sirens in northern Israel for the first time.
Since March 18, when the IDF resumed its offensive 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 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, the Houthis in Yemen have launched more than 20 ballistic missiles and several drones at Israel. Only half of the missiles triggered sirens in the country and were shot down, while the others fell short.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Paleostinian Ministry of Health announced the martyrdom of 50 people and the injury of 152 others in Israeli massacres 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 during the past 24 hours in the ongoing aggression on the besieged enclave.
The ministry said, in a statement on Thursday, that two of the deaders were recovered from under the rubble caused by previous attacks, noting that the corpse count since March 18, 2025 has risen to 1,978 deaders and 5,207 injured.
This brings the toll of the Israeli aggression to 51,355 deaders and 117,248 injured since October 7, 2023.
A number of victims are still under the rubble and in the roads, as ambulance and civil defense crews have been unable to reach them, the ministry added.
[IsraelTimes] Reservist seriously wounded, 2 lightly hurt in southern Strip, as Israel said to carry out major strikes across the enclave; IDF warns residents of Gaza City’s Zeitoun to evacuate
Amid intense fighting 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 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... , Defense Minister Israel Katz said Friday that the Israel Defense Forces was making strides but paying a heavy price in the enclave, where a reservist was killed on Thursday and another was seriously maimed by RPG fire on Friday afternoon.
"The achievements are great, but still, the dangers are great and the prices are heavy," wrote Katz on X.
His comments came as heavy strikes were reported in both the northern and southern Gaza Strip.
"Thousands of IDF soldiers in the standing army and reserves are now heroically fighting in Gaza for the release of hostages and to destroy Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... terrorists," said Katz, adding that the military was operating "intensely" to ensure ground troops were protected.
"All Israeli citizens must embrace and strengthen IDF commanders and soldiers and pray for their safety and success," he said.
An hour after Katz’s statement, the IDF issued an evacuation warning to Paleostinians in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City ahead of Israeli strikes on the area in the Strip’s north.
In a post on X, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man Col. Avichay Adraee published a map of the area that is to be evacuated, saying the warning came in light of attacks by terror groups against Israeli forces in the area. Adraee urged the Paleostinians to head for western Gaza City.
Mohammed al-Mughayyir, an official with Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense rescue agency, told AFP that the corpse count from Israeli strikes on Friday had risen to at least 40.
WAFA, the Paleostinian Authority’s official news agency, said that an elderly Paleostinian couple was killed Friday by Israeli artillery fire near Zeitoun, another Paleostinian was killed in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood and three were killed in an airstrike on a school housing displaced people in central Gaza City.
According to WAFA, two more Paleostinians were killed in dronezaps on Jabalia and Beit Hanoun, also in northern Gaza.
Hamas’s civil defense agency also reported at least five people — a couple and their three children — had been killed Friday when their tent was struck in the al-Mawasi area of the southern city of Khan Younis.
Agency front man Mahmud Bassal said the dear departed woman had been pregnant.
The IDF did not immediately comment on those reported strikes. The military says it takes precautionary steps to minimize harm to civilians, accuses Hamas of embedding itself in civilian infrastructure, including schools, to carry out attacks on Israel and Israeli troops.
The military said its fighter jets had on Friday afternoon carried out several strikes in the Tel Sultan neighborhood of Rafah, south of Khan Younis, in an attempt to kill button men who fired an RPG at an army Humvee, and possibly also opened fire with light arms.
The attack seriously maimed a soldier from the IDF’s 205th Reserve Armored Brigade’s 5250th Battalion, and lightly injured two more troops, the military said.
Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... the Hamas civil defense agency on Friday said the toll from an Israel airstrike on a house in northern Gaza’s Jabalia the previous day had risen to 23.
"Civil defense teams recovered 11 bodies last night and this morning following the Israeli bombing that targeted a residential house ... in Jabalia," Mohammed al-Mughayyir, an official with the agency, told AFP.
"This is in addition to the 12 victims recovered at the time of the attack yesterday," he added.
The IDF said on Thursday that it had struck a Hamas "command and control center" in the area of Jabalia, without specifying the target.
Over 2,000 Paleostinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel resumed hostilities there on March 18, out of more than 51,400 killed since the war there was sparked by the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry.
The figures cannot be independently verified, and do not distinguish between combatants and civilians. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January, and another 1,600 turbans inside Israel during the Hamas onslaught.
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Martyrdom it is, then. Or rather, more martyrdom. Y’all have a large collection of martyrs already — some number well over 20,000.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Spokesman for al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... Resistance® Movement, stressed on Friday that the Paleostinian resistance fighters are still ambushing an attacking the enemy troops across 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... The feats of our fighters from Beit Hanoun to Rafah are a source of pride, a military miracle, and a call up for the Umma's youths and forces, Abu Obeida said in a statement .
He added: ''Our fighters in the combat zones and defensive ambushes are ready for confrontation and have pledged to remain steadfast until victory or martyrdom.''
The Paleostinian resistance intensified its attacks on the Israeli occupation forces across Gaza Strip, inflicting more losses upon them.
In this context, al-Qassam Brigades announced that its fighters managed to snipe four Zionist occupation soldiers in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, leaving them dead or injured.
Israeli media outlets reported casualties among a special Army force in Rafah, South of Gaza, adding that 4 injured soldiers, including 3 seriously, have been evacuated.
The Zionist media also indicated that the deputy commander of a company was injured in an anti-armor fire in Rafah.
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... al-Quds Brigades also announced bombarding the Zionist enemy forces and vehicles stationed in al-Muntar Hill, east of Gaza City, with mortar shells.
[NAHARNET] A video circulating online shows the Lebanese Army seizing control of military posts, weapons and rockets in the southern region of al-Orqoub.
Al-Jadeed television meanwhile reported that the military posts and arms belonged to Leb ...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... 's Jamaa Islamiya group, a Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... ally.
Al-Jadeed added that the area had been fully evacuated by Jamaa Islamiya.
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[NAHARNET] Lebanese official media said eight people were maimed in a drone attack in a border village, as Syria said it responded to artillery fire from Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... Eight Syrian refugees were maimed and taken to hospital in the northeast Lebanese area of Hermel after an "explosives-laden drone blew up" in the border village of Hawsh al-Sayyed ...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged... Ali, Lebanon's National News Agency said.
The Lebanese Army sent reinforcements "after gunfire was heard," the report added.
Syrian state news agency SANA, carrying a statement from an unnamed defense ministry source, said Lebanon's Hezbollah had launched artillery shells at Syrian army positions in the Qusayr area of Homs province, near the Lebanese border.
"Our forces immediately targeted the sources of the fire," the statement said.
"We are in contact with the Lebanese Army to evaluate the incident and have stopped targeting the sources of fire" at the Lebanese Army's request, the statement added.
Lebanon and Syria's defense ministers signed an agreement last month to address border security threats after festivities left 10 dead.
Earlier in March, Syria's new authorities accused Hezbollah of abducting three soldiers into Lebanese territory and killing them.
The Iran-backed group, which fought with the forces of toppled Syrian president Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... , denied involvement, but the ensuing cross-border festivities left seven Lebanese dead.
Lebanon and Syria share a porous 330 kilometer (205 mile) frontier that is notorious for the smuggling of goods, people and weapons.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Paleostinian Ministry of Health announced the martyrdom of 50 people and the injury of 152 others in Israeli massacres in the 
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