[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Utah man was arrested after police discovered 71 homemade bombs and a substantial stockpile of bomb-making materials inside his Orem apartment, according to Provo Police.
Eric Whitaker, 41, was taken into custody on Friday after allegedly brandishing a weapon near the Provo Towne Centre Mall. Following his arrest, authorities secured a search warrant for his apartment.
Inside, officers uncovered bomb-making supplies and 'a large number of home-made improvised explosive anti-personnel fragmentation grenade devices,' Provo Police said in a press release.
The Metro Bomb Squad was called to the scene, prompting the evacuation of the apartment building as the devices were recovered safely.
In total, 71 homemade explosive devices were seized along with additional bomb-making materials.
Whitaker is now facing 71 counts of possession of weapons of mass destruction and one count of possessing bomb-making materials. The case has been referred to the Utah County Attorney's Office.
We are proud of our Patrol Officers for their fast response to the initial report of suspicious activity, and their continued assistance to our Detectives during the follow-up investigation.
'We also appreciate Orem PD's Patrol Division for assisting in the evacuation measures during the search warrant.'
This case follows just a month after a would-be suicide bomber in the UK was jailed for plotting to “kill as many nurses as possible” in a pressure cooker explosion at a hospital in Leeds.
Mohammad Farooq brought a homemade bomb—modeled after the 2013 Boston Marathon devices but packed with twice as much explosive—into St James’s Hospital in January 2023.
He was talked out of carrying out the attack by patient Nathan Newby, whom Justice Cheema-Grubb described as “an extraordinary, ordinary man whose decency and kindness...prevented an atrocity in a maternity wing of a major British hospital.”
Farooq, a clinical support worker, had targeted the hospital after failing to access the American base at RAF Menwith Hill and was found guilty after a jury deliberated for less than two hours.
Police found him with a viable bomb, knives, black tape, and a blank-firing imitation firearm.
An investigation revealed he had been self-radicalized online and obtained bomb-making instructions from an Al Qaeda publication.
Bethan David, head of the CPS Counter Terrorism Division, said: “Farooq is an extremely dangerous individual who amassed a significant amount of practical and theoretical information that enabled him to produce a viable explosive device...The extremist views Farooq holds are a threat to our society, and I am pleased the jury found him guilty of his crimes.”
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So? I'm sure he's just a hobbyist. When I was a kid the local hobby store taught us how to make match-head pipe bombs. And I'm not a terrorist... no, really.
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Over here in Mid-Eastern GA. A Deputy was killed and another wounded by a Guy living out of a Motor Home. Police/GBI/GSP found modified Full Auto weapons, ammo and a stack of Pipe bombs.
What is strange is the 2 deputies had just served a restraining order, then as the 2 deputies were leaving, then he shot them.
[JustTheNews] Texas Department of Public Safety officers continue to find missing children and arrest those on its criminal illegal immigrant most wanted list.
With April being “Child Abuse Prevention Month,” DPS troopers have rescued more than 600 children through its Interdiction for the Protection of Children (IPC) Program, DPS said. IPC officers are trained “to identify victims of exploitation, missing children, crimes against children and high-risk threats against children,” DPS said.
Through Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star, DPS troopers rescued more than 900 children illegally brought into the U.S. in Texas alone under the Biden administration, The Center Square reported.
So far this year, DPS and other agencies have arrested 21 Texas 10 Most Wanted fugitives, sex offenders and others, including six sex offenders and seven criminal illegal immigrants – with $25,000 in rewards being paid for tips that yielded arrests, DPS said.
One recent arrest was of a fugitive on Texas’ 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrants List, 46-year-old Mexican national Carlos Ortiz. He was arrested after DPS received a tip through Crime Stoppers.
Ortiz was wanted by authorities in Tarrant County since October 2024 on charges of continuous sexual abuse of a young child. He was arrested at an apartment complex in Haltom City by multiple authorities, including special agents from DPS’ Criminal Investigations Division, Haltom City Police and U.S. Marshals North Texas Fugitive Task Force.
Since 2008, Ortiz had been arrested in Tarrant County for assault causing bodily injury to a family member and driving while intoxicated, according to DPS records.
Another fugitive arrested on Texas’ 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrants List was 25-year-old Honduran national Anderson Ronaldo Reyes Giron. He was arrested in north central Austin and wanted by authorities in Travis County since February for deadly conduct (discharging a firearm) and in Williamson County since March on property theft charges.
He was first arrested under the Trump administration in January 2017 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection “for alien removal.” By August 2024, he was arrested by the Austin Police Department officers for deadly conduct (discharging a firearm) and subsequently bonded out of jail, according to DPS records.
Through the governor’s Public Safety Office, taxpayer money is allocated to Texas Crime Stoppers to offer cash rewards to anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest of one of Texas’ 10 Most Wanted Fugitives, Sex Offenders or Criminal Illegal Immigrants. To be eligible for cash rewards, tipsters must provide information to authorities by calling the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477), submitting a tip through DPS website or Facebook page.
“All tips are anonymous – regardless of how they are submitted – and tipsters will be provided a tip number instead of using a name,” DPS says.
As offenders are arrested and come off of the lists, others are added.
Two recent additions include U.S. citizens, Rondarrius Evans, 21, of New Boston, to the Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitives List and Rodolfo Martinez Jr., 42, to the Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders List.
Evans is wanted by authorities in Bowie County since last August on two capital murder charges and drug charges. Martinez Jr. is wanted in Harris County since last November for indecency with a child by sexual contact.
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That college is the high-rent Marxist/DEI/weird sh*t breeding ground where they claim to "...fully integrate the liberal arts and sciences with the cultural and intellectual resources of the global city of Los Angeles, California", so basically your parents spend lots of money to make you a bat-crap crazy person.
I'm actually quite surprised the Occidental Trustees hired a white male for the role. A heavily inked transgender dominatrix furry would have been more appropriate.
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[Garowe] al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... snuffies have recaptured some areas previously secured by Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) and other foreign forces in the Middle and Lower Shabelle regions, in Somalia.
Al-Shabaab has recently launched lethal operations mostly in areas where forces under the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), which later became African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) and now AUSSOM, have been withdrawn as part of the drawdown process.
Jacob Markson Oboth, Minister of Defence and Veteran Affairs, has confirmed that al-Shabaab has recaptured many areas. Oboth has informed his counterparts from countries contributing peacekeeping forces in Somalia that numbers now need to be increased if they are to encounter the fast gains being made by al-Shabaab.
"I want to inform you that al-Shabaab is recapturing many places which had previously been secured. There is an urgent need to counter the growing threats posed by al-Shabaab and reinforce ongoing stabilisation efforts in Somalia," Oboth said.
Oboth was speaking to his counterparts and commanders of peacekeeping forces in Somalia at the ongoing evaluation meeting in Kampala. Commanders and senior security delegates from Kenya, Æthiopia, Djibouti, Uganda, and Egypt are in Kampala for an evaluation meeting for the mission, which started in 2007.
Al-Shabaab has become more lethal ever since they ransacked the UPDF Base at Buulo-Mareer, Lower Shabelle region on May 26, 2023, where they left 54 Ugandan soldiers dead.
The base commander, Lt Col Edward Nyororo, was among the 54 killed soldiers, while others were captured alive.
UPDF, Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), and Burundi have been reduced in the last year since United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Security Council permanent member countries withdrew their funding at the end of 2021, claiming that AMISOM forces had outlived their purpose.
UPDF reduced its forces from more than 6,000 to around 3,000. Still, according to various commanders from Troops Contributing Countries(TCCs), a number that had been reduced needs to be increased to counter the lethal attacks launched by al-Shabaab.
[ShabelleMedia] Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... between two groups within the 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.... (ISIS) is reported to have broken out today in the CalMiskad Mountains, located in the Bari region of northeastern Somalia. The clash resulted in both casualties and material losses.
The violence erupted like lava from a volcano after a faction of Somali ISIS fighters attempted to surrender to 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... security forces amidst a broader ongoing offensive against the group. Sources indicate that the fighters sought to escape the conflict, but tensions among the hard boyz led to open combat.
Puntland military officials confirmed that the battle lasted for about an hour, with fatalities and injuries reported, though they have yet to specify the exact number of casualties. The fighting also caused significant damage to property, but further details remain scarce.
According to reports, a dispute within the ISIS ranks may have contributed to the clash. The disagreement appears to center on whether the group should continue fighting or lay down their weapons and surrender to Puntland forces.
The ISIS group has lost considerable territory in the Bari region as part of the ongoing Hilaac operation by Puntland forces in the CalMiskad Mountains, an area heavily targeted by both U.S. and UAE Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s.
The air raids have been part of a broader strategy to weaken ISIS positions in the region’s Calmiskad mountains.
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[TRT.GLOBAL] At least 12 people of Nigeria's Bokko Ghide community, including two vigilantes, were killed on Saturday by 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... murderous Moslems in the Gwoza local government area of the northeastern Borno State, a local leader confirmed to Anadolu on Sunday.
Gwoza Emir Mohammed Timta, the traditional and Islamic leader of the area, confirmed the incident to Anadolu on Sunday morning.
While two local vigilantes were ambushed and killed along the Kirawa road under the Pulka district, ten other victims were civilians who went into the bush in search of firewood for cooking.
"Though we have buried the victims, others who sustained varying degrees of injuries are receiving medical treatment in Maiduguri," Timta said. "People are now scared to visit their farmlands, and it is time for land preparation ahead of rainfall."
[SAHARAREPORTERS] The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has raised a fresh alarm over the regrouping of 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 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.... Lions of Islam in the Tumbus areas of Lake Chad and the Mandara Hills within the Sambisa Forest in the state.
Governor Zulum lamented what he called a setback in military operations in the state, saying Boko Haram Lions of Islam were regrouping in the Tumbus water areas on the Lake Chad without resistance by the military to dislodge them.
The governor disclosed this in Maiduguri on Friday when the Minister of Defence, Badaru Abubakar; Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, and other top military commanders paid him a visit.
Zulum, who acknowledged the efforts of the military in combating the Boko Haram in Borno and the North-East, noted that there had been a resurgence of the Lions of Islam in certain areas, particularly around the Tumbus in Lake Chad and the Mandara Hills in Sambisa Forest.
He said, ''What we are facing now is, we do military exercises/operations, and after some time, we disengage. The Boko Haram and ISWAP members will again come and take over those areas that were hitherto regained.
''There was never a time since the insurgency started that operations were conducted on the shores of the Tumbus in the Lake Chad. And, it has been a breeding ground for the murderous Moslems. They can get money, livelihoods, and everything in that water.''
''So, there is a need for us to see how military operations should be conducted in the waterway because all the Lions of Islam that are operating in the Northwest, North Central, Northeast will return to the Sahel and Tumbus in the Lake Chad for their livelihoods. This is something that needs to be done.''
Zulum listed some of the challenges faced in the state as lack of military manpower covering the Timbuktu triangle, Tumbus, Mandara hills, and the porous Nigerian borders to Sahelian states.
''Manpower is very essential, while I was aware of the constraints of the Nigerian army, because right now, you are everywhere in Nigeria. The Northeast, Northwest and North Central as well as southern Nigeria. I'm aware of your limitations.
''But still considering the northeastern region, the Nigerian army should look into the possibility of sending more trained manpower. There is a difference between Boko Haram, ISWAP, and bandidos.
''ISWAP and Boko Haram are Lions of Islam getting support internationally, and looking at our mostly non-existent borders remain infiltrated through the Sahel, which is our major problem.
''If the Sahel is not secured, Nigeria will never be secured. So, there is a need for us to fortify the security situation in the Sahel with a view to ending the crisis in the entire nation.
''So, we need manpower, and in terms of military operations, the operation should be a continuous exercise,'' he said.
The governor appealed to the defence minister to deploy more track military tanks, MRAPS, and all corresponding ammunition to Borno for a successful operation.
''We need air support. I know the kind of constraints you face accessing fighter helicopters and others, but attack helicopters are very important in these areas, and drones are also very important.
''The last attack that happened in Wulgo, carried out by ISWAP and Boko Haram, a confirmed statement said it was carried out with the support of armed drones. They hit the MNJTF with drones.
''This is the time for the Nigerian military to rise again and procure sophisticated drones and anti-drone equipment so that we get rid of these problems.
''While you are working towards kinetic measures, you should consider the non-kinetic approach, which is very important. Borno State has, within the last three years, received more than 300,000 repentant Boko Haram fighters, and not all of them are fighters. Some of them are farmers,'' he said.
Zulum expressed optimism that the security situation in the state will improve very soon, while assuring every support and collaboration to the military to end the Boko Haram insurgency.
Speaking, Badaru assured that the Federal Government would provide more military support to deal with the security challenges in Borno and the North-East.
[IsraelTimes] The United States has hit more than 800 targets in Yemen since mid-March, killing hundreds of Houthi rebel fighters, including members of the group’s leadership, the US military says.
Washington’s forces have hammered the Iran-backed Houthi rebels with near-daily air strikes since March 15 in an operation dubbed “Rough Rider,” seeking to end the threat they pose to vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and reestablish US regional “deterrence.”
“Since the start of Operation Rough Rider, USCENTCOM has struck over 800 targets. These strikes have killed hundreds of Huthi fighters and numerous Houthi leaders,” the military command responsible for the Middle East says in a statement.
“The strikes have destroyed multiple command-and-control facilities, air defense systems, advanced weapons manufacturing facilities, and advanced weapons storage locations,” CENTCOM says.
Despite the strikes, the Houthis — who control large swaths of Yemen and have been at war with a Saudi-led coalition backing the internationally recognized government since 2015 — have continued to claim attacks against both US vessels and Israel.
CENTCOM says that “while the Houthis have continued to attack our vessels, our operations have degraded the pace and effectiveness of their attacks. Ballistic missile launches have dropped by 69 percent. Additionally, attacks from one-way attack drones have decreased by 55 percent.”
“Iran undoubtedly continues to provide support to the Houthis. The Houthis can only continue to attack our forces with the backing of the Iranian regime,” the military command says.
“We will continue to ratchet up the pressure until the objective is met, which remains the restoration of freedom of navigation and American deterrence in the region,” it adds.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] In a new update, 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... 's Ministry of Health and Environment announced on Sunday that 12 citizens, including children and women, were martyred or injured due to the American aggression targeting residential neighborhoods in the al-Sabeen and Bani al-Harith districts of the Capital, Sana'a.
In an official statement, the Ministry confirmed that two citizens were martyred and one was injured after the aggression targeted a house in the 14 October neighborhood in al-Sabeen district.
It also reported that nine citizens, including two women and three children, were maimed in the American attack on a residential neighborhood west of al-Rawda in Bani al-Harith district.
The Ministry of Health condemned the continued targeting of residential areas by American forces, calling it a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.
American aggression against Yemen escalated on Saturday with a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeting the capital, Sana'a, specifically targeting the districts of al-Sabeen and Bani al-Harith.
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[Breitbart] The U.S. Department of State is warning tourists to be on the lookout, as cartel violence continues to spike in the busy beach resort area of Los Cabos. The violence not only includes shootings and targeted killings, but also style attacks on city buses where gunmen have been setting them on fire despite their being full of passengers.
The violence began earlier in the week with multiple killings throughout the Mexican state of Baja California. The incidents include targeted attacks on the police. The violence is linked to the ongoing turf war between rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel — mainly the Chapitos and Mayos.
In addition to the murders and shootings last week, groups of gunmen set fire to transit buses in the cities of La Paz and Los Cabos. Videos shared on social media captured one of the attacks, where three men can be seen throwing fuel inside the bus and lighting it on fire. Seconds later, passengers can be seen getting out of the bus.
The tactic has become common in the state of Sinaloa, where gunmen from both Los Chapitos and Los Mayos have been setting fire to businesses and vehicles believed to be tied to their rivals. The indiscriminate acts of arson and violence have claimed several innocent lives despite empty assurances by Mexico’s government that the region is safe.
By Friday afternoon, consular officials sent out security alerts telling U.S. tourists to be aware of the rising violence and to shelter in place should confrontations arise.
[IsraelTimes] France will increase security measures around mosques after the brutal stabbing to death of a Muslim worshiper inside a mosque in the south of the country, the interior minister says.
Speaking to broadcaster BFMTV, Bruno Retailleau says that he had sent a telegram to the country’s prefects “for all the mosques in France to be better protected than they are.”
This was the Khadija mosque in La Grand-Combe, Gard department, southern France, where on April 25th worshipper Aboubakar was murdered. MSN gives the rest of the story:
A man suspected of killing a Muslim worshiper in a mosque in the south of France was still on the run Sunday, authorities said, in an attack described by Prime Minister Francois Bayrou as Islamophobic.
The attacker and the victim were alone in the mosque in the former mining town of La Grand Combe on Friday when the stabbing occurred. The assailant recorded the attack on his phone, and security camera video showed him shouting insults at Allah, local media said.
Bayrou denounced the attack an act of “Islamophobic ignominy displayed on video.”
“We stand shoulder to shoulder with the victim’s family and the shocked worshipers,” he said. “The resources of the state are being mobilized to ensure that the murderer is caught and punished.”
Local prosecutor Abdelkrim Grini said Sunday that investigators are taking into account “the possibility that this was an Islamophobic act. It’s the one we’re working on first, but it’s not the only one,” he said.
“Racism and hatred based on religion will never have a place in France,” French President Emmanuel Macron said. “Religious freedom is inviolable.”
Grini said images of the stabbing he has viewed were “horrifying.” He said police were working nonstop to find the suspect, with 70 investigators deployed.
“We’re being particularly vigilant to make sure he doesn’t claim any more victims,” Grini said. The suspect was born in France in 2004, lived in the area and did not have a criminal record, Grini said.
The Grand Mosque of Paris condemned the attack in a statement and said the victim, a young man identified only as Aboubakar in French media, had just finished cleaning the mosque when he was killed.
It called on authorities to quickly shed light on the motive behind the attack, asking judicial authorities to say whether it is being treated as a terrorist act and to note its “scale and seriousness ... for the safety of all."
Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin called the stabbing a “despicable murder” that “wounds the hearts of all believers, of all Muslims in France.”
The SOS Racisme campaign group joined the calls for more clarity in the investigation and took part in a march organized later Sunday at La Grand Combe in support of the victim. Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau traveled to the nearby town of Ales to meet with local Muslim faith officials and pledged to stop the attacker.
"Of course, the possibility of an anti-Muslim act is not at all neglected; quite the contrary," he said. “It is out of the question to tolerate this kind of act in this hyper-violent society.”
In Paris, a rally against Islamophobia and in tribute to the victim was held at the Place de la République.
[IsraelTimes] New York City Mayor Eric Adams ...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve... says the NYPD is investigating festivities between anti-Israel demonstrators and counter-protesters outside the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn.
The incidents took place on Thursday when anti-Israel demonstrators gathered outside the synagogue at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights to rally against an unannounced visit by Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
The synagogue is a revered site for the Chabad movement and is located in the heart of the community. Neighborhood organizers said the protesters chanted for the removal of "Zionists" and called for an intifada.
The demonstration in the Jewish neighborhood provoked widespread outrage. Anti-Israel protesters often hold vitriolic protests around the city but demonstrations at synagogues and in Jewish neighborhoods are rare.
Footage later emerged showing a group of Jews following an individual down a street, shouting at them and chanting "Death to Arabs" in Hebrew. Anti-Israel activists claimed that they had been assaulted.
Adams says in a statement that the protesters "surrounded the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters — a Jewish house of worship."
"Initial reports indicate that one female protester was isolated from her group, harassed by counter-protesters, and suffered injuries," Adams says on X. "In another incident, a second woman was subjected to vile threatening by counter-protesters."
The statement says the "NYPD is investigating these incidents" and calls on the women involved, and any others with information, to contact the NYPD.
"None of this is acceptable. In fact, it is despicable," Adams says. "We will not tolerate violence, trespassing, menacing, or threatening. Hate has no place in our city."
[OneIndia] Pakistani troops engaged in unprovoked firing, breaching the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir for the fourth consecutive night, officials reported this morning.
"During the night of April 27-28, Pakistan Army posts initiated unprovoked small arms fire across the Line of Control in areas opposite Kupwara and Poonch districts," the Indian Army stated, adding that they responded "swiftly and effectively".
This marked the first instance of the Pakistan Army violating the ceasefire in the Poonch sector.
The exchange of fire between Indian and Pakistani forces followed the death of 26 individuals in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam last Tuesday.
Ties between India and Pakistan have deteriorated further after the involvement of a terror group linked to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba came to light in the Pahalgam attack - the deadliest in Jammu and Kashmir since the Pulwama incident.
[IsraelTimes] The Hamas-controlled Gaza civil defense agency says Israeli strikes killed at least eight people, including a 17-year-old who died in an attack on a southern town.
The figures cannot be independently verified and do not differentiate between civilians and combatants.
Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal tells AFP that “at least eight people have been killed and dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes since dawn.”
Bassal says three people were killed when a group of civilians was struck in Gaza City’s Zeitun neighborhood, and three more in a strike that hit a residential building in the central Bureij refugee camp.
Two people died in the southern Khan Younis area, Bassal says, including a 17-year-old boy in a strike on the town of Khuzaa, and another person killed when Israeli forces hit fishing boats off the coast.
In a separate incident near Khan Younis, a strike wounded at least 12 people, most of them children, in Al-Mawasi, the civil defense spokesman adds.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
[IsraelTimes] Media outlets in Gaza report that dozens of protesters in Beit Lahiya, in the northern part of the Strip, are calling for an end to the war.
Children hold signs reading “We want to live” and “Stop the war,” and are also filmed chanting “Hamas out.”
In recent weeks, sporadic demonstrations have taken place in Beit Lahiya against Hamas and in favor of ending the war.
[GEO.TV] The health ministry in Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... -run 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... announced on Sunday that the corpse count from the war had risen to at least 52,243 people, after accounting for hundreds of individuals previously listed as missing whose deaths have now been confirmed.
"An additional 697 deaders have been added to the cumulative statistics after their data was completed and verified by the committee monitoring missing persons," the health ministry said in a statement, adding the overall toll stood at 52,243.
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Note to Hamas & GAZA supporters.
Food for Future Thought.
Don't piss off a sleeping Dragon.
They do bite.
[IsraelTimes] One of the most widespread and complex cyber attacks against Iran’s infrastructure was repelled yesterday, the semi-official Tasnim news agency quotes the head of Iran’s Infrastructure Communications Company as saying.
“One of the most widespread and complex cyber attacks against the country’s infrastructure was identified and preventive measures were taken,” Behzad Akbari says according to semi-official Tasnim news agency, without giving more detail.
In recent years, Iran has seen a series of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, including its ports. Surveillance cameras in government buildings, including prisons, have also been hacked in the past.
The country disconnected much of its government infrastructure from the internet after the Stuxnet computer virus — widely believed to be a joint US-Israeli creation — disrupted thousands of Iranian centrifuges in the country’s nuclear sites in the late 2000s.
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I swear that Stuxnet led to an attack on a service center in the Sudan. However, the only thing I can find is: "Security vendor Kaspersky Lab has identified infections with the new Duqu malware in Sudan and, more importantly, Iran, the main target of the Trojan’s predecessor — Stuxnet.
Duqu took the security industry by storm last week when the Hungarian research laboratory Crysys shared its analysis of the new threat with the world’s top antivirus vendors. Believed to be closely related to the Stuxnet industrial sabotage worm, from which it borrows code and functionality, Duqu is a flexible malware delivery framework used for data exfiltration.
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[Regnum] The death toll from the explosion in the Iranian port of Shahid Rajaee, located near the city of Bandar Abbas, has increased to 40. This was reported on April 27 by the governor of the Iranian province of Hormozgan, Mohammad Ashouri Taziani.
Previously, 36 deaths were reported.
“The number of people who have died from injuries sustained in the explosion has now reached 40,” Mehr news agency quotes Taziani as saying.
On the afternoon of April 27, members of the Iranian parliament reported that many of the dead had not yet been identified. Media sources also suggested that there were other bodies of the dead under the rubble.
As reported by Regnum news agency, the explosion at the Shahid Rajaee port occurred on April 26. According to eyewitnesses, the sound was so loud that it was heard within a radius of 20 km from the scene. Local media reported that the explosion occurred at a warehouse for hazardous goods, but the head of the terminal, Pazhman Behzadpur, denied this information. An investigation has been launched into the explosion.
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent condolences to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the country's President Masoud Pezeshkian. The head of state expressed his readiness to provide the necessary assistance in eliminating the consequences of the disaster. Later, on Putin's orders, two amphibious aircraft Be-200ChS and Il-76 of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were sent to Iran.
There were 1,205 reported casualties from the explosion. Most of them have already been discharged from hospitals. As of 16:00 Moscow time on April 27, 190 people remain in hospitals, including 20 in intensive care units.
The Russian Embassy in Tehran reported that no information about injured Russian citizens had been received. Russian foreign missions in Iran are operating as usual.
Not a lie that it was said, but the claim is definitely taqqiya. Do go on…
[Regnum] There were no military goods in the Iranian port of Shahid Rajaee near the city of Bandar Abbas, where an explosion occurred the day before. This was stated on April 27 by the official representative of the Iranian Defense Ministry, Reza Telai-Nik.
“During the investigation, it was found that there were no imported or exported military cargoes in the area of the fire,” Iranian state television channel IRIB quotes him as saying.
A powerful explosion rocked the Iranian port of Shahid Rajaee on April 26. According to eyewitnesses, the sound of the explosion was so loud that it was heard within a radius of 20 km from the scene. One of the buildings collapsed, and port operations were suspended.
According to the latest data, 1,139 people were injured in the explosion. The total number of deaths at the moment is 25 people. As the head of the judicial power of Hormozgan province Mojtaba Ghahremani noted, 21 bodies have already been handed over to the forensic medical examination. The bodies of ten victims have been identified, including two women and eight men.
Several media outlets reported that the explosion occurred at a hazardous cargo warehouse. Terminal head Pazhman Behzadpour later denied this information, stating that the explosion was not related to hazardous cargo. An investigation has been launched into the incident. The Russian embassy in Tehran reported that no information about Russian citizens being injured has been received.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent condolences to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and the President of the IRI Masoud Pezeshkian in connection with the explosion at the Shahid Rajaee port. In his telegram, the Russian leader also expressed his readiness to provide the necessary assistance in eliminating the consequences of the disaster.
It is worth noting that the Iranian Crisis Management Organization blamed the incident on ''unsafe storage of chemicals in containers at the Shahid Rajaee Port,'' according to the organization's front man, Hossein Zafri, who told the Iranian ILNA news agency, ''The cause of the earth-shattering kaboom was the chemicals inside the containers.''
Fires still burning a day later; person connected to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps tells NYT that sodium perchlorate ignited.
An individual tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reportedly confirmed the earth-shattering kaboom occurred in a shipment from China of a chemical used to produce missile fuel.
Fires continued to break out in different areas of Shahid Rajaei port as of Sunday night, according to state media, with helicopters and firefighters continuing efforts to extinguish them.
Iran’s health ministry urged residents of Hormozgan province, where the port is located, to avoid going outside "until further notice" and to use protective masks.
Authorities declared three days of public mourning across the province, and state TV reported all schools in offices in the bucolic provincial capital of Bandar Abbas, near the port, were ordered closed to allow authorities to focus on the emergency effort.
The port’s customs office said in a statement carried by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
that the earth-shattering kaboom probably resulted from a fire that broke out at the hazardous and chemical materials storage depot. A regional emergency official said several containers had went kaboom!.
The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... quoted an individual with ties to Iran’s IRGC, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered... to discuss security matters, who said that sodium perchlorate had went kaboom!. The compound is a major ingredient in solid fuel for missiles.
The port had taken in a shipment of the chemical in March, the private security firm Ambrey said a day earlier. The fuel was part of a shipment from China by two vessels to Iran, first reported in January by the Financial Times.
BLAST HEARD 50 KILOMETERS AWAY, FIRE ’STILL NOT OUT’
Live footage from the port on Sunday showed thick smoke still visible at the scene of the earth-shattering kaboom.
"The fire is under control but still not out," a state TV correspondent reported from the site around 20 hours after the blast.
The explosion was so powerful that it was felt and heard about 50 kilometers (30 miles) away, Fars news agency reported.
Speaking Sunday at the scene, Iran’s Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni said that "the situation has stabilized in the main areas" of the port. He told state TV that workers had resumed loading containers and customs clearance.
Images from news agency IRNA on Saturday showed rescuers and survivors walking along a wide boulevard carpeted with debris after the blast at Shahid Rajaee, more than 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) south of Tehran.
Flames could be seen engulfing a truck trailer and blood stained the side of a crushed car, while a helicopter dropped water on massive black smoke clouds billowing from behind stacked shipping containers.
"The shockwave was so strong that most of the port buildings were severely damaged," Tasnim news agency reported.
Saturday is the start of the working week in Iran, meaning the port was busy with employees.
Three Chinese nationals were "lightly injured," China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing its Bandar Abbas consulate.
“Israel was involved in the explosion,” MP Mohammad Siraj told the Rokna news agency on Sunday. “It was not accidental. Clear evidence points to Israeli involvement.”
“There were explosives planted in the container, either in their country of origin or along the transportation route,” Siraj claimed. “We do not rule out the involvement of internal factors in planting the explosives in the containers. The explosion occurred at four different locations.”
Siraj did nor provide evidence to back up his claim, and an Israeli official was quoted by Hebrew media Saturday as saying Israel had no part in the blast at the port.
Iran’s Defense Ministry denied the reports that the blast may have been caused by the mishandling of solid fuel used for missiles, with a spokesman telling state TV that the reports were “aligned with enemy psyops,” and that the blast-hit area did not contain any military cargo.
In a first reaction on Sunday, spokesman Gen. Reza Talaeinik denied that missile fuel had been imported through the port.
“No sort of imported and exporting consignment for fuel or military application was (or) is in the site of the port,” he told state television by telephone.
He called foreign reports on the missile fuel baseless — but offered no explanation for what material detonated with such incredible force at the site. Talaeinik promised authorities would offer more information later.
Social media footage of the explosion on Saturday at Shahid Rajaei saw reddish-hued smoke rising from the fire just before the detonation. That suggested a chemical compound being involved in the blast, as in the Beirut explosion.
[GEO.TV] A building in southern Beirut was struck on Sunday, Reuters live footage showed, almost an hour after the Israeli army issued an evacuation order to residents of the area.
The Israeli military struck what it said was a Hezbollah precision missiles warehouse in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday, after killing one of the Iran-backed terror group’s operatives in a dronezap in southern Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... earlier in the day.
There were no immediate reports of casualties in the Beirut-area strike, which came after after the military warned residents to evacuate.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a joint statement that missiles stored in the Lebanese capital "posed a significant threat to Israel."
"Israel will not allow Hezbollah to grow stronger and pose any threat to it — anywhere in Lebanon," the two men said.
They stressed that Israel will not allow Beirut’s southern suburbs — historically a Hezbollah stronghold — to serve as a sanctuary for the terror group.
"The Lebanese government bears direct responsibility for preventing these threats," they warned.
Shortly thereafter, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement: "The storage of missiles in this infrastructure site constitutes a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon, and poses a threat to the State of Israel and its civilians."
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned the strike in Beirut, in a statement issued on his behalf.
He called on "the United States and La Belle France, as guarantors of the ceasefire agreement, to assume their responsibilities and compel Israel to halt its attacks immediately."
He also alleged that Israel was attempting to destabilize his country and warned that it would intensify tensions in the region.
It was only the third time that the IDF has carried out an attack in the Beirut area since a ceasefire in Lebanon went into effect in November 2024.
The previous attacks took place on March 28, when Israel also issued a warning after two rockets were fired from Lebanon at northern Israel, and on April 1, when an unannounced strike killed four people, including Hassan Bdair, a member of Hezbollah’s Unit 3900 and of the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
In a post to X earlier Sunday, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, Col. Avichay Adraee, published a map showing the location of the building, and called on civilians to evacuate at least 300 meters (984 feet) from it for their safety.
"To everyone present in the building marked in red as shown on the map and the buildings adjacent to it: You are present near facilities belonging to Hezbollah," he said.
According to Lebanese media, several small warning strikes were carried out in the area before fighter jets dropped heavier munitions to destroy the structure.
IDF DRONE KILLS HEZBOLLAH OPERATIVE IN SOUTHERN LEBANON
Earlier Sunday, the IDF killed a Hezbollah operative in a dronezap in southern Lebanon’s Halta, the military said.
The operative was involved in Hezbollah’s attempts to regroup and rearm, according to the IDF.
The military published footage of the strike.
Lebanon’s health ministry confirmed that an Israeli dronezap had killed one person. Local media said the man was killed while working on his chicken farm.
The November 2024 ceasefire largely ended more than a year of fighting, including some two months of open war, between Hezbollah and Israel.
The fighting started when the Iran-backed terror group opened fire on October 8, 2023, shooting rockets and drones at the Jewish state in support of Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... , which had attacked Israel from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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 in a shock invasion the previous day.
The ceasefire allows Israel to strike immediate threats, however, and near-daily strikes against Hezbollah operatives and their allies have continued.
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Hezbollah missile warehouse in southern Beirut airstruck following Israeli warning
Notice that there are no reports of "civilian" casualties - proving that Lebanese are, a lot, smarter than Gazans.
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