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Confirmed: Prime minister of Yemen’s Houthi government killed in Israeli strike
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Dark money and influence on US policy thread
Sunday 08/31/2025

anna lee petersen.
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
For IDF's 7th Brigade, return to Gaza
City is personal: Six of its crew are held hostage
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Palestinian factions hand over weapons from Beirut camps
Europe
5 Minutes of Hate: EU foreign policy chief 'not optimistic' bloc will agree on sanctioning Israel
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran's Revolutionary Guards says
8 arrested for suspected links to Mossad
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF spokesperson chides Arabic media for
spreading 'false' rumors of IDF casualties in Gaza
Arabia
Houthi missile fired at Israel overnight fell short
National Liberation Army (TPNPB) states
its readiness for war against Indonesian Army

Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2025 03:28 || Comments || Link || [1758 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She looks nice.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 08/31/2025 5:54 Comments || Top||

#2  smells nice too. The dogs got a whiff
Posted by: Frank G || 08/31/2025 6:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Seems like a distracting loud noise might make it hard for her to hold her outfit together.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/31/2025 7:19 Comments || Top||

#4  BANG!!
Posted by: technochitlin || 08/31/2025 7:43 Comments || Top||

#5  18th century fox hunting tapestry, somehow I don't think that was unintentional. Hellfire club theme?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/31/2025 13:32 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Woman tries to run over Border Patrol agents helping arrest illegal immigrants in Maine, DHS says
[NYPOST] A woman who tried to run over US Border Patrol agents assisting in the arrest of two illegal immigrants in Maine was arrested this week, authorities said.

Olivia Wilkins, 24, was charged with aggravated reckless conduct, criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, driving to endanger, hindering apprehension, obstructing government administration and failure to stop for an officer, the Department of Homeland Security said.

The Border Patrol agents were assisting the Maine State Police (MSP) and the Knox County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) with a commercial vehicle rollover accident Monday involving Jhoan Andres Ortiz-Calderon and Victor Hugo Cardona-Calderon.

Ortiz-Calderon had a final order of removal from an immigration judge, and Cardona-Calderon overstayed his visa and had not obtained a work permit, authorities said.

While walking the two men to a USBP vehicle, Wilkins, a bystander, began verbally abusing authorities, DHS said.

''She then used her vehicle to drive at the group of law enforcement, squealing the tires and swerving, nearly hitting them,'' a news release states.

Sheriff's deputies chased Wilkins, who crashed her vehicle along the side of a road, where she was arrested.

''This incident comes just two weeks after a threatening letter with a white powdery substance was sent to an ICE office in New York City. Less than a week ago, a violent rioter was charged with assault in San Francisco after he threatened to stab an ICE officer and harm his family. Earlier in the week, there was a bomb threat at a Dallas ICE facility,'' a DHS spokesperson said.

Update at 11:25 a.m EDT: that’s transgender Olivia G. Wilkins, 24, of Thomaston, also known as Stevie Wilkins, uses they/he pronouns. Revealed interests: Black Lives Matter and queer pride.
Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1793 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Throw the book at that dame.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/31/2025 2:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Maine is full of nuts like this.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 08/31/2025 6:02 Comments || Top||

#3  She is a man.
Posted by: Gritch Throlumble3163 || 08/31/2025 7:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Is this something you have information about, Gritch Throlumble3163, or is it because she is plain, with a bad haircut?
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2025 9:21 Comments || Top||

#5  huh. I was betting Susan Collins...
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/31/2025 10:02 Comments || Top||

#6  She's hot for a Maine chick. ;)
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 08/31/2025 10:37 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Led to the design of the paper bag
Posted by: Frank G || 08/31/2025 10:41 Comments || Top||

#8  It’s true. From the Maine Wire:

A Thomaston man was arrested on Monday after he allegedly tried to run over border patrol agents while they were taking suspected illegal immigrants into custody in Washington, Maine, following a truck crash.

Deputies from the Knox County Sheriff’s Department arrested Olivia G. Wilkins, 24, of Thomaston, also known as Stevie Wilkins, on Tuesday after he allegedly tried to run over a Border Patrol agent and a Maine State Police officer.

A LinkedIn page appearing to belong to Wilkins shows that he also went by the name “Stevie” and used they/he pronouns. The banner on the account is a Black Lives Matter fist superimposed onto a pride flag.


Image of the LinkedIn page at the link. I am shocked that the NY Post missed it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2025 11:24 Comments || Top||

#9  Whoops! Link
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2025 11:30 Comments || Top||

#10  Execute these fucks for sedition
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/31/2025 12:22 Comments || Top||

#11  We need commonsense tranny control. For the children.
Posted by: Regular joe || 08/31/2025 13:07 Comments || Top||

#12  Uhmm there's a thought!

Instead of gun controls, lets have tranny controls!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 08/31/2025 19:48 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Houthi missile fired at Israel overnight fell short
[IsraelTimes] A ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels at Israel overnight fell short, military officials say.

Hebrew media reports say the missile apparently fell in Saudi Arabia.

The missile did not trigger any alarms in Israel.

The missile came after Israel, on Thursday, carried out strikes that killed several top Houthi officials.

Since March 18, when the IDF resumed its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis in Yemen have launched 72 ballistic missiles and at least 23 drones at Israel. Several missiles have fallen
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2025 2025-08-31 00:55 || Comments || Link || [1812 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  Maybe if they stacked two missiles, one on top of the other. That should double the range, right? Might be a bit of a trick to keep it all from exploding at once. But then again, not exploding all at once is the fundamental problem of rocket science. Happy learning curve!
Posted by: SteveS || 08/31/2025 17:18 Comments || Top||


TousiTV: on Houthis deaths
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Posted by: 3dc || 08/31/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1763 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  REVENGE^TM: Reports: Houthis raid UNICEF, WFP offices in Sanaa
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/31/2025 7:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Aside from being the most inbred society on earth, in the last centrury Yemen had the reputation of being a nation rushing pell mell from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. And, by the way, some 25.000 Yemenis followed the call and appeared in Peshawar after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. There they were sent out as cannon fodder in a war that continued for nearly nine years. The survivors returned to Yemen to help make it the Islamic paradise it is today.
Posted by: Zenobia Craque3311 || 08/31/2025 9:21 Comments || Top||


Confirmed: Prime minister of Yemen’s Houthi government killed in Israeli strike
[GEO.TV] The prime minister of 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 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...
government and several other ministers were killed in an Israeli strike on the capital Sana, the news agency run by the group said on Saturday, citing a statement by the head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat.

A number of others were maimed in Thursday's strike, it said, without providing details.

Israel said on Friday that the Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
had targeted the Iran-aligned group's chief of staff, defence minister and other bigwigs and that it was verifying the outcome.

Mashat's statement did not make clear whether the Houthi defence minister was among the casualties.
The Times of Israel adds:
A number of others were maimed in Thursday’s strike, it said, without providing details.

Later on Saturday, the IDF also confirmed that Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahwi was killed alongside several Houthi military officials and other senior members of the group’s political leadership, though it did not name them.

The exact outcome of the strike and the fate of some of those targeted had yet to be determined, it said.

Israel said on Friday that the Arclight airstrike had targeted the Iran-aligned group’s chief of staff, defense minister and other bigwigs and that it was verifying the outcome.

Channel 12, without citing any sources, reported that the IDF assesses the entire Houthi cabinet, including the prime minister and 12 other ministers, were likely killed. The network said the assessment was not definitive.

Mashat’s statement did not make clear whether the defense minister was among the casualties.

Ahmad Ghaleb al-Rahwi became prime minister nearly a year ago, but the de facto leader of the government was his deputy, Mohammed Moftah, who was assigned on Saturday to carry out the prime minister’s duties.

Rahwi was seen largely as a figurehead who was not part of the inner circle of the Houthi leadership.

The Israeli military said its fighter jets had struck a compound in the Sanaa area where senior Houthi figures had gathered, describing the attack as a "complex operation" made possible by intelligence-gathering and air superiority.

On Thursday, Israeli security sources said the targets had been various locations where a large number of senior Houthi officials had gathered to watch a televised speech recorded by leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi.

Israeli intelligence provided real-time details of the gathering, enabling the strike, which was carried out despite heavy air defenses in the area, the IDF said.

The defense minister, Muhammad Nasser al-Attafi, has been in his role since 2016 and is considered the senior-most official in the organization’s military establishment, according to Channel 12.

He is reported to have established a close relationship with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and with Hezbollah.

Also targeted was Houthi chief of staff Muhammad al-Ghamari, who was reportedly seriously hurt, but not killed, by an Israeli strike in Yemen in June, carried out during Israel’s brief war with Iran.

Thursday’s strikes marked the 16th time that Israel has attacked the Iran-backed rebel group in Yemen, located some 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) away.

Courtesy of 3dc:






Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1828 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  Houthis confirm their prime minister killed in Israeli strike
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/31/2025 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Good job! Do it again.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 08/31/2025 5:59 Comments || Top||


Britain
Miah Brothers Convicted in Leeds Mosque Child Abuse Nightmare / X
Protected and abetted for how many decades by the native English authorities, don’t forget.
[X] In a disturbing case in Leeds, UK, two Pak brothers surnamed Miah were convicted of 62 crimes, including raping two 7-year-old boys in a mosque, drugging, and prostituting 30 underage girls, with some victims having their toes cut off during escape attempts. This incident underscores the broader UK grooming gangs scandal, where systemic failures in police and social services have allowed such abuses to persist, amid accusations of negligence and cultural sensitivities stifling action. Elon Musk's social media posts amplified the outrage, fueling demands for justice and reforms.
Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1811 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  I think we're supposed to not notice.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 08/31/2025 7:01 Comments || Top||

#2  England should bring back hanging.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 08/31/2025 10:38 Comments || Top||

#3  ^England should bring back Lord Protector.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/31/2025 12:46 Comments || Top||

#4  ^...hanging, drawing and quartering.
Posted by: alanc || 08/31/2025 18:45 Comments || Top||


Europe
Failed Iraqi Asylum Seeker Accused of Pushing 16-Year-Old Girl in Front of Train in Germany
[Breitbart] A failed asylum seeker from Iraq has been accused of killing a 16-year-old girl in Germany by pushing her in front of an oncoming train.

Göttingen public prosecutor’s office said on Friday that it has detained a 31-year-old man from Iraq on suspicion of pushing a 16-year-old girl onto the train tracks and fatally injuring her at the Friedland station on August 11th.

While police had initially suspected the incident to have been an accident, the Iraqi national’s DNA was later found on the deceased girl’s shoulder, German daily Die Welt reports.

Police had interviewed the man shortly after the girl’s tragic death, after which he denied involvement and tested positive for alcohol consumption.

According to prosecutors, the suspect had initially come into contact with police in 2022 when he applied for asylum in Germany.

However, the request was denied in December of that year and a deportation order to Lithuania was issued in March of this year under the Dublin Regulations, which allows for EU nations to send alleged asylum seekers back to the member state where they first entered the bloc.

Yet, in July, the Hanover District Court refused to issue a deportation detention order, allowing him to remain free on the streets of Germany while the removal process continued.

After his arrest, the Iraqi migrant reportedly invoked his right to silence and has since been placed in psychiatric hospital after having allegedly displayed signs of mental illness at the scene of the crime and previously being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
Inbreeding pays off.
It has yet to be determined whether he will be imprisoned or remanded to a psychiatric hospital should he be convicted of having killed the 16-year-old girl.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/31/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1763 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Hey! Look! A squirrel!
Can the family sue the government for letting this cultural enricher run loose?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 08/31/2025 6:59 Comments || Top||

#2  ...tested positive for alcohol consumption.

Oh so not a "real" muslim then,
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/31/2025 10:09 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Activists smear red paint on home of NY Times’ Jewish editor: ‘Joe Kahn lies Gaza dies’
The left eats its own.[IsraelTimes] The home of the Jewish editor-in-chief of The New York Times

...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

, Joseph Kahn, was vandalized by anti-Israel activists Friday, with red paint splattered across his apartment building’s walls and front steps.

The vandalism in Greenwich Village apparently took place overnight.

A message scrawled on the pavement read, "Joe Kahn lies 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...
dies."

Pro-Paleostine protester splatters paint all over New York Times editor’s home https://t.co/YwiominhmX

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) August 29, 2025

The paper’s headquarters in Manhattan was defaced last month with red paint and a similar message.

"Disagreement with our reporting is acceptable, but vandalizing property and threatening individuals and their families is unacceptable," Times spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander told outlets. "We will work with authorities to address it."
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2025 2025-08-31 04:52 || Comments || Link || [1753 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Gaza dies

From your mouth to the ear of G*d.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/31/2025 5:20 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Cop martyred, three terrorists killed in Kohat attack
[GEO.TV] A police officer was martyred and two other cops were maimed in a terrorist attack in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Kohat district on Saturday.

Kohat Regional Police Officer (RPO) Abbas Majeed Marwat said that the murderous Moslems carried out a cowardly attack on the police personnel in Lachi area of Kohat, adding that the attack left one police officer, Inspector Ashfaq, martyred and two others injured.

In retaliatory fire, three murderous Moslems were also neutralised, he added.

Police and law enforcement agencies in the province have long been facing a surge in terrorist attacks. Earlier this month, a terrorist attack on a checkpost in KP's Bannu district left one police personnel martyred and three turbans dead.

According to police, the murderous Moslems had attacked the Fateh Khel checkpost with heavy weapons, after which an exchange of fire took place between the police personnel and the terrorists.

Pakistain has witnessed a surge in cross-border terror incidents since Taliban
...Arabic for students...
rulers returned to Afghanistan in 2021, particularly in the bordering provinces of KP and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
According to a report released by the Pakistain Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), an Islamabad-based think tank, the country witnessed 78 terrorist attacks during the month of June, which resulted in at least 100 deaths.

Among the fatalities were 53 security personnel, 39 civilians, six bad boys, and two members of local peace committees.

A total of 189 people were maimed, including 126 members of the security forces and 63 civilians.

Altogether, the violence and operations led to 175 deaths in June — among them, 55 security personnel, 77 bad boys, 41 civilians, and two peace committee members.
Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1776 views] Top|| File under: Pak Taliban (TTP)


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Tens of thousands claimed at rallies for Hamas ceasefire deal across Israel
[IsraelTimes] Tens of thousands took to the streets across Israel on Saturday night
…or at least thousands — those who count are prone to exaggeration…
to call on the government to urgently agree to a ceasefire deal for the release of the hostages held by terror groups in Gaza, a day after security services announced they had recovered the bodies of two captives from the Strip.

On Friday, the IDF and Shin Bet said they recovered the body of slain hostage Ilan Weiss and the remains of a second hostage, who was identified Saturday as Idan Shtivi, both killed during Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught in southern Israel.

Marking the one-year anniversary of the murder of six hostages by their Hamas captors as Israeli troops neared, hostages’ families urged the government to abort its plans to conquer Gaza City, arguing that military pressure only endangers the captives.

Before the main rallies in Tel Aviv, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum stated: “As plans move forward to conquer Gaza City, a hostage deal remains stalled at the negotiating table – serving as a painful reminder of last year’s lesson: military pressure kills hostages.”

The statement referenced the killing of Alexander Lobanov, Carmel Gat, Ori Danino, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi and Almog Sarusi by their Hamas captors last year.
Yes, but given that lack of military pressure also kills hostages, Israel might as well make life intolerable for Hamas and those who voted for them while making it ever more difficult for them to reprise 10/7 with a new collection of hostages, you selfish, short-sighted, venal cowards. Someday you, too will give thanks to God for having given Israel Bibi despite you.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2025 2025-08-31 00:37 || Comments || Link || [1795 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  And before Oct 7th the very same people protested against ...
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/31/2025 3:15 Comments || Top||

#2  …against Bibi’s judicial reform. It was very annoying of them.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2025 3:20 Comments || Top||

#3  ^And before that, they protested something else. It all due to the frustration that Israel is a real democracy - not sham one like their EUropean models. (The idea that EUropeans want all of us dead, just doesn't seem to occur.)
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/31/2025 3:27 Comments || Top||

#4  They yearn for the lost Golden Age when Israel was wholly owned by the labour socialists, divided between the government and the unions.

I grew up reading Yaakov Kirschen’s Dry Bones…
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2025 22:50 Comments || Top||


Mass evacuation of Gaza City 'impossible', says Red Cross chief; Hamas executing those who left
[GEO.TV] The head of the international Red Cross on Saturday denounced Israel's plans for a mass evacuation of Gaza City ahead of a military takeover, insisting there was no way it could be done safely.

"It is impossible that a mass evacuation of Gaza City could ever be done in a way that is safe and dignified under the current conditions," International Committee of the Red Cross president Mirjana Spoljaric said in a statement, describing the evacuation plan as "not only unfeasible but incomprehensible".

Courtesy of badanov, the reason why this is impossible:



Posted by: Fred || 08/31/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1759 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  "It is impossible that a mass evacuation of Gaza City could ever be done in a way that is safe and dignified under the current conditions,"

Well, that's too bad.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/31/2025 3:21 Comments || Top||

#2  War is hell on safety and dignity. If you don’t want those messed with, don’t start a war.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/31/2025 4:08 Comments || Top||


Heavy Israeli bombardment has been rocking Gaza City, Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida prob. toes up
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Courtesy of 3dc:


Infamous Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida said targeted and likely killed in IDF strike on Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Army says it targeted a senior Hamas member in Gaza City bombing, as reports identify him as longtime masked face of terror group’s military wing; Israeli officials said optimistic

The notorious spokesperson for Hamas’s military wing in the Gaza Strip was said to have been the target of an Israeli airstrike on Saturday, the results of which were not immediately clear but which left Israeli officials feeling cautiously optimistic.

The Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet said in a statement on Saturday evening that they had carried out an airstrike on a senior Hamas operative in the Gaza City area, in the northern Gaza Strip.

While the statement did not provide the identity of the targeted terror operative, multiple Hebrew media outlets reported that it was the longtime Hamas spokesman, Hudayfa Samir Abdallah al-Kahlout, who is more widely known by his nom de guerre Abu Obeida.

Abu Obeida is always masked in his statements to the media, and he is viewed as something of a symbol in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere in the Arab world. During the current war, the IDF published an estimation of what his face looks like.

While his fate after the strike was not immediately known, unnamed Israeli security sources cited by Hebrew media expressed cautious optimism about the outcome of the strike.

“There is optimism, we have cautiously assessed that the direction is positive,” one security source told Channel 12, while another told the Kan public broadaster that the outcome was “looking good.”

Reports in Gaza indicated that some 11 people, including children, were killed in the strike on the apartment building that the senior Hamas operative was believed to have been sheltering in.

The IDF insisted that precautions were taken to minimize civilian harm, including precision munitions and aerial surveillance, along with additional intelligence.

Hamas swiftly shot down reports of Abu Obeida’s death and published a statement warning that the rumors were nothing more than an attempt at “psychological warfare,” Jordanian news outlet Roya News reported.

According to the news outlet, Hamas warned Palestinians against spreading rumors of his death, as it would assist Israel in its ‘deliberate’ psychological campaign and serve to undermine public trust and unity.

Abu Obeida has been the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades since 2004. He rose to prominence in 2006 as he announced the kidnapping of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.

He has since been the face of the more high-profile statements and psychological warfare by the terror group.

Abu Obeida’s last statement was issued on Friday evening, warning Israel that its planned offensive to conquer Gaza City would subject hostages in the area to the “same risks” as the terror group’s fighters.

“We will take care of the prisoners the best we can, and they will be with our fighters in the combat and confrontation zones, subjected to the same risks and the same living conditions,” he said.

His last video statement was aired some two weeks ago, in which he attempted to pressure Israel to agree to a hostage-ceasefire deal accepted by the terror group.

Palestinian source said to confirm that IDF strike killed Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida
[IsraelTimes] A Palestinian source tells the Saudi channel Al-Arabiya that the notorious spokesman of Hamas’s military wing, Abu Obeida, was killed in an airstrike last night in an apartment in Gaza City.

The IDF and Shin Bet said in a statement that they had carried out an airstrike on a senior Hamas operative in the Gaza City area, in the northern Gaza Strip. While the statement did not provide the identity of the targeted terror operative, multiple Hebrew media outlets reported that it was the longtime Hamas spokesman, Hudayfa Samir Abdallah al-Kahlout, who is more widely known by his nom de guerre Abu Obeida.

The Palestinian source told Al-Arabiya that everyone in the apartment was killed, including Abu Obeida.

The source says that senior Hamas officials and his family members confirmed his death after examining the body.

There has been no official confirmation from the terror group, which sometimes waits months before confirming the deaths of senior figures.

Palestinians say 4 Gazans killed waiting for aid, 10 die of starvation
[IsraelTimes] Israeli gunfire killed four people trying to get aid in central Gaza, according to health officials at Al-Awda Hospital, where the bodies were taken.

Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry says 15 people were killed and at least 206 others wounded seeking aid over the past 24 hours.

The Health Ministry also says 10 people died as a result of starvation and malnutrition over the last 24 hours, including three children. It said at least 332 Palestinians have now died from malnutrition-related causes during the war, including 124 children.

The numbers cannot be immediately confirmed, and Israel denies that a famine situation exists in the Strip, pointing to hundreds of tons of aid that have gone in in recent weeks.

Israeli officials say only 10,000 out of 1 million have evacuated from northern Gaza
Israeli security officials tell Channel 12 that the evacuation of Gaza City ahead of the planned IDF offensive is going much slower than anticipated.

The official says that Israel estimates that only some 10,000 people have evacuated to the south in the three weeks since Israel announced it would empty the city of its civilian population ahead of a planned move by the IDF to capture Gaza City.

The official says that there are some 1 million people still in the area.

At least 44 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks today
[GEO.TV] At least 44 Paleostinians, including aid seekers, have been killed by Israeli attacks 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...
since dawn, Al Jazeera reported.

At least 63,371 people have been killed and 159,835 maimed since the start of Israel's war on Gaza in October 2023, the Paleostinian Health Ministry said.

Since Israel broke the ceasefire on March 18, at least 11,240 people have been killed and 47,794 maimed, it added.

According to the report, at least 15 aid seekers were killed and 206 were maimed in the last 24 hours. A total of 2,218 people were killed and more than 16,434 were maimed while seeking aid.

At least 10 people were killed due to famine and malnutrition over the last 24 hours.

Seven soldiers wounded, one moderately, when Gaza roadside bomb hits armored vehicle
[IsraelTimes] Seven Israel Defense Forces soldiers are wounded when the armored personnel carrier they were traveling in went over an explosive device in north Gaza’s Zeitoun neighborhood, military officials say.

One soldier was in moderate condition, and six others were lightly wounded in the incident that occurred overnight.

Five of the six lightly wounded troops have been treated and released from the hospital.

Facebook Reel reports from Gaza Humanitarian Foundationdelivery station in Gaza


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#1  Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida killed in Gaza City strike - report
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Olde Tyme Religion
Attacks on US churches have risen significantly since 2021, report finds
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Southeast Asia
People's Defense Forces (PDF) ambushed and killed Pro-Junta militias near Shwebo.


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SDF captures 51 ISIS suspects in major operation
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Saturday they arrested 51 Islamic State (ISIS) suspects in an extensive operation amid fears of a resurgence of the jihadist group.

“After approximately 14 hours of continuous effort involving more than 3,000 fighters, our forces achieved all their objectives. A total of 51 terrorists were captured, including individuals directly involved in attacks on civilians, as well as on security and service institutions,” the SDF said in a statement.

“Dangerous terrorist networks were dismantled, including cells that had been plotting attacks on Al-Sina’a Prison and Al-Hol Camp. The campaign has neutralized the immediate threat to civilians and regional stability,” it added, referring to facilities in Hasaka holding ISIS-affiliated people.

A significant number of weapons were also confiscated.

Al-Sina’a prison, known locally as Ghweran, is a large complex that houses ISIS militants. An attempted prison break at the facility in January 2022 left at least 322 people dead after the SDF laid a week-long siege to thwart the escape.

Al-Hol camp is infamous for its squalid conditions and has been branded a breeding ground for terrorism. Iraqis and Syrians make up the majority of the nearly 28,000 held in the camp that also houses people who traveled from around the world to join ISIS.
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IDF says it struck Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon
[IsraelTimes] The IDF reports that earlier today, the air force carried out airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.

The IDF says it struck the terror group’s “military infrastructure, including underground infrastructure” where the military had identified Hezbollah activity.

Residents of northern Israel reportedly heard the impacts of the strikes.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards says 8 arrested for suspected links to Mossad
[IsraelTimes] Accused are suspected of trying to transmit coordinates of sensitive sites and details on senior military figures, as well as passing intel during June war between Israel and Iran

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Saturday it had arrested eight people suspected of trying to transmit the coordinates of sensitive sites and details about senior military figures to Israel’s Mosssd
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...
, Iranian state media reported.

They are accused of having provided the information to the Mossad spy agency during Israel’s war with Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
in June, when it targeted Iranian nuclear facilities and killed top military commanders in the worst blow to the Islamic Theocratic Republic since the 1980s war with Iraq.

Iran retaliated with barrages of missiles and drones. The United States entered the war on June 22 with strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

A statement by the IRGC, a US-designated terrorist organization, alleged that the suspects had received specialized training from Mossad via online platforms. It said they were apprehended in northeastern Iran before carrying out their plans, and that materials for making launchers, bombs, explosives and booby traps had been seized.

State media reported earlier this month that Iranian police had arrested as many as 21,000 "suspects" during the 12-day war with Israel, though they did not say what these people had been suspected of doing.

Security forces conducted a campaign of widespread arrests and also stepped up their street presence during the brief war that ended in a US-brokered ceasefire.

Iran has executed at least eight people in recent months, including nuclear scientist Rouzbeh Vadi, hanged on August 9 for allegedly passing information to Israel about another scientist killed in Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s.

Human rights groups say Iran uses espionage charges and fast-tracked executions as tools for broader political repression.
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#1  "Somebody has to be guilty - and it can't possibly be Iran's brilliant leadership (who get instructions direct from Allan)"
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#2  The horrid fates of these folks--not at all necessary they be guilty-will simultaneously make people more cautious about everything and anything they say or do....and hate the regime more.
Net...loss for the regime in the long run.
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#3  I wonder how many were falsely compromised by Israeli intelligence. Seems like an easy way to get rid of Iranian government officials, as well as foment fear among the regime's supporters.
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#4  IRGC just rounding up the usual suspects.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 08/31/2025 10:34 Comments || Top||


Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) conducts operations against Islamic State (ISIS) cells in Hasakah.


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