[ToloNews] The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Saturday that at least 40 people were killed and maimed in separate Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... attacks in nearly 10 provinces despite a previous commitment by the group to halt fighting during the three days of Eid ceasefire.
"Mullah Hibatullah (Taliban’s supreme leader) has no authority on all factions of the group and his loyalists are not abiding by his orders." Defense Ministry front man Rohullah Ahmadzai said. "The Taliban violated the ceasefire in several areas and provinces and it caused casualties among civilians and military personnel."
Taliban has rejected the allegations and has blamed the government for not honoring its ceasefire commitments.
During the three days of Eid, violence reported in Kandahar, Ghazni, Kunduz, Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , Farah, Uruzgan, Kapisa, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and Maidan Wardak provinces.
"Taliban are not committed to the ceasefire. The group does not follow any other path except shedding the blood of the innocent people," said Abdul Sattar Hussaini, a member of the Afghan parliament.
According to the data gathered by TOLOnews, Baghlan, Faryab, Takhar, Badakhshan, Kunduz, Balkh, Pashtun-infested Logar, Kapisa, Farah, Herat, Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... , Maidan Wardak, Kapisa, Uruzgan, and Helmand witnessed fighting between the government forces and the Taliban.
In the latest incident of violence, one police force member and two civilians were maimed in a kaboom in Sarubi district in Kabul on Saturday morning.
A police vehicle was targeted by the blast.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!... Badghis governor Hissamuddin Shams said "heavy attacks" by the Taliban in the province.
"Today, we had supply activities in Jawand district. Taliban were planning to attack our helicopter. Fortunately, their plan was foiled and six of them were eliminated," said Shams.
Taliban has said that those mines that were detonated during the ceasefire were planted before Eid days.
[ToloNews] Mullah Mannan Niazi, the deputy leader of a splinter group of Taliban ...Arabic for students... led by Mullah Rasul, who sustained injuries in a clash in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... last week, has died, a source from Herat, who wished not to be named, said.
The fighting happened on May 12 in Guzara district in the western province of Herat after several attackers targeted the area where he lived, the source.
The source said that "Mullah Manan got injuries on his head and was under treatment at Herat’s regional hospital."
He was in a coma after the clash. Three of his men were killed and four others were maimed in the clash, the source.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] 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... militias 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... have intensified their attacks on battlefronts located west and northwest of the oil-rich governorate of Marib, where over a million internally displaced civilians sought asylum from the ongoing violence of the Iran-backed group.
Stepped-up offensives expanded into the nearby governorate of Taiz, but the Yemeni army, backed by local pro-government forces and the Saudi-led Arab Coalition, confirmed the Houthis were still incurring heavy losses on the battlefield.
Houthis have buried over 500 holy warriors in the last month alone, battleground sources revealed. Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste ... army media reported dozens of bodies of dead Houthi holy warriors were still scattered around contact lines west of Marib.
The national army killed no less than 40 Houthi holy warriors in the western edges of Marib governorate, military sources said.
Backed by rustics, the national army foiled advances towards al-Mashjah and al-Kasara fronts attempted by Houthis, who were forced to retreat at the end.
Arab Coalition aircraft targeted Houthi reinforcements in the two fronts, leaving human and ordnance losses, sources added.
In Taiz, fierce fighting early on Thursday killed 37 Houthi bad boys.
"Government troops fended off a Houthi attack targeting the Air Defense camp in the northwestern part of Taiz city, leaving 12 Houthis killed and others injured," reported the Aden-based Saba news agency.
The western front of Maqbana, a district of Taiz governorate, also saw violent mostly peaceful confrontations that left nearly 25 Houthis killed and others injured, the government-run news agency added.
In other news, Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi renewed his country’s strong rejection of Iran’s expansionist agenda, regardless of the price it costs.
The coup waged by the Iran-aligned Houthi militias, according to the president, has only produced death and destruction and inflicted untold and widespread suffering on the lives of millions of Yemenis.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/16/2021 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11130 views]
Top|| File under: Houthis
Violence broke out outside the Israeli Embassy in London as a large team of police push back violent protesters part of Palestine direct action event. pic.twitter.com/o53OtPTYkt
Two #Azerbaijani border guards are killed in a shootout with unidentified assailants on the #border with Iran, officials say, adding that 10 kilograms of #drugs had been found at the scene.https://t.co/FFjOsQtzHD
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) May 16, 2021
Posted by: Fred ||
05/16/2021 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under: Narcos
Posted by: Fred ||
05/16/2021 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11128 views]
Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM
#1
The one good thing about all these protests is the photos and videos. Less we forget Facial/Body Recognition app's, like VEGAS uses to ID Pro's even with glasses and masks on, will help us ID these radicals further down the road.
Google Image compare/find might even help a little.
Breaking: At the #antifa anti-Israel direct action march, they tried swarming and attacking a California Highway Patrol vehicle on the road. They ignore orders to get out of the way. pic.twitter.com/8fUqrqdRFN
#4
Solution: .68 cal paintball Claymore that can be attached to front bumper, grill, roof rack that can be rudimentarily camo'd as fog lights. Replace paintballs with .68 cal pepperballs. Each mine is armed with 22 balls. Be sure to pay the few extra $ for the remote triggers.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
05/16/2021 11:58 Comments ||
Top||
#5
Apparently it took place near Beverly Hills, in the Westwood area near Hwy 405
Have often thought someone should develop RIOTER ID SPRAY using a Drone sprayed dispenser. Filled with "SHARPE" type Permanent BLUE INK dispensed overhead raining down on RIOTERS. Thus making later ID easy for several hours to even a day or so for later arrest and/or public Exposure as a RIOTER (employers/Parents and etc..).
[MAIL] News organizations demanded an explanation on Saturday for an Israeli airstrike that targeted and destroyed a Gaza City building housing the offices of The Associated Press, broadcaster Al-Jazeera and other media outlets.
Its destruction also sparked widespread protests across the United States.
AP journalists and other tenants were safely evacuated from the 12-story al-Jalaa tower after the Israeli military warned of an imminent strike. Three heavy missiles hit the building within the hour, disrupting coverage of the ongoing conflict between' Gaza´s Hamas rulers and Israel.
With Palestinian protests against Israel across the U.S., on Saturday, President Joe Biden spoke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the spiraling violence.
Biden told Netanyahu that he continued supported Israel's right to defend itself but expressed concern over deaths on both sides.
#2
With all this talk of defunding police, you could outsource these shit jobs to us. Fly in a special 'diversity exercise' contingent. Later say 'the third world has a right to learn efficient policing from us' or some shit like that. We'll take an old A-10 in exchange. With the cannon.
[AlAhram] Police said in a statement they were keeping a ’close watch on elements who are attempting to leverage the unfortunate situation in Paleostine to disturb public peace and order’ in Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir said Saturday that 21 people were arrested for disturbing public order by expressing solidarity with Paleostinians and holding protests against Israel's military offensive 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith 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...
Police said in a statement they were keeping a ’close watch on elements who are attempting to leverage the unfortunate situation in Paleostine to disturb public peace and order’ in Kashmir. The statement said police were ’sensitive to public anguish’ but wouldn't allow those sentiments to ’trigger violence, lawlessness and disorder’.
Kashmiris have long shown strong solidarity with Paleostinians and have often staged anti-Israel protests when fighting broke out in Gaza.
Police inspector-general Vijay Kumar told news hounds that 20 people were arrested in Srinagar, the region's main city, and one from a village in southern Kashmir.
A police officer, speaking anonymously in line with department policy, said the 21 were arrested for social media posts, taking part in anti-Israel protests and making graffiti in solidarity with Paleostinians in Gaza and Jerusalem.
Some of the arrested could be soon released after ’counseling and assurances from their parents that they would desist from such acts in future,’ the officer said.
The officer said the arrested include Sarjan Barkati, a Moslemholy man and a prominent anti-India activist, as well as an artist. The artist was arrested for painting pro-Paleostinian graffiti on a bridge in Srinagar on Friday showing a woman wearing a scarf made of a Paleostinian flag and a tear tricking from her eye, with the words: ’WE ARE PALESTINE’. The graffiti was later painted over by police.
Since Monday, Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip with Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and Paleostinian Death Eaters have fired hundreds of rockets into Israel. The latest round of fighting between the bitter enemies has already begun to resemble _ and even exceed _ a devastating 50-day war in 2014.
During that war, large anti-Israel protests erupted in Kashmir, which often morphed into festivities with demands of an end of India's rule over the region and causing dozens of casualties.
Relations between Hindu-majority India and Israel have long been viewed with suspicion and hostility in Kashmir, and Israel has also emerged as a key arms supplier to India.
[Jpost] Israel shared intelligence with the US showing how Hamas operated inside the same building with the Associated Press and Al-Jazeera in Gaza, officials in Jerusalem said on Sunday.
Officials in more than one government office confirmed that US President Joe Biden’s phone call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday was, in part, about the bombing of the building, and that Israel showed Biden and American officials the intelligence behind the action.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
05/16/2021 09:30 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under: Hamas
#5
Via Insty: The US was the only country to inquire about the IDF strike on the building, which the military said housed Hamas military intelligence offices, as well as AP and Al Jazeera, other news outlets, and other offices and apartments.
Also, a former AP reporter noted that Hamas operated in and around the building back in 2014, which shreds the statement from AP’s CEO who said that he had no idea Hamas was around the building or something.
Posted by: Frank G ||
05/16/2021 13:42 Comments ||
Top||
“If AP did not know that Hamas was in the building, then they are incompetent reporters. If AP knew that Hamas was in the building but kept silent, then they are complicit. If AP comprehended that it would be used as a human shield, then it is a Hamas collaborator.”
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
05/16/2021 13:52 Comments ||
Top||
#7
at this point the WHouse must make a statement
should have done it yesterday but perhaps Biden had to have 6 meetings to agree on the wording then changed his mind
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
05/16/2021 13:59 Comments ||
Top||
#8
Mike, AP may have comprehended that they were being used as human shields, but were unable to do anything about it. At least Hamas let them evacuate when Israel warned that the building was about to be destroyed. IIRC, at times, Hamas would force civilians to stay in targeted buildings, so they could say how the juices were killing women and children.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
05/16/2021 14:01 Comments ||
Top||
#10
Hope they salted the briefing with stuff that will prove later that the White House leaks.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
05/16/2021 14:27 Comments ||
Top||
#11
a few minutes ago, CNN had a report on this with NO MENTION of the Israeli briefing of the WHouse.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
05/16/2021 14:30 Comments ||
Top||
#12
Bernie put a deeply ill informed and blatantly biased op ed in the NYTimes on 5-14 on this issue. Basically blamed Israel for Hamas's rockets. The anti Israel majority of the Democrat party is rallying around it.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
05/16/2021 14:38 Comments ||
Top||
[LI] We just thwarted an attempt by Hamas terrorists to launch a drone armed with explosives from Gaza City at Israel. The drone fell on the launch squad and killed two Hamas operatives.
But, of course, the Juice are to blame..
[JPost] A man was killed in the central city of Ramat Gan after Hamas fired a volley of close to 30 rockets at central Israel in a large barrage on Saturday afternoon.
Hamas rocket barrages on southern and central Israel continued throughout the day on Saturday with almost 300 projectiles flying toward Israel on the sixth day of fighting between the Israeli military and Hamas. Rocket sirens sounded in parts of the West Bank, in central and southern Israel and near Netanya on Saturday night, after Hamas threatened earlier in the night to put Tel Aviv in a "curfew" at midnight.
No injuries were reported due to direct hits or shrapnel in the barrage on Saturday night, although 10 people were injured while running to bomb shelters.
Shortly after the barrage of rockets, the IDF began a wave of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, hitting over 150 targets, including the home and office of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, with a number of deaths and injuries reported, according to Palestinian media.
Hamas said it launched the barrage towards Tel Aviv in response to "the massacre of women and children at the Shati refugee camp."
The airstrike on the Shati refugee camp killed ten people including eight children. The IDF said that the strike was against an apartment that "serves as terror infrastructure" for Hamas. "The IDF takes precautions to minimize possible harm to civilians during its military activities," the statement added.
Other rockets fell in the Arab-Israeli town of Taibe and others near the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Tulkarem.
If Gazan rockets kill them, they go straight to Paradise as martyrs, right? So they should be grateful for the opportunity instead of whining about maiming and death and such.
Shrapnel also fell near the Safari in Ramat Gan.
Posted by: Frank G ||
05/16/2021 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11136 views]
Top|| File under: Hamas
#1
there are some differences between voluntary and involuntary martyrs in Islamic theology
it is complicated and there are differences of opinion
however, it is pretty clear that only the voluntary martyrs who are killed in battle defending Islam will be able to sit with the prophets in heaven
others will, however, receive rewards and perhaps more importantly, much less or even zero punishment in purgatory
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
05/16/2021 0:26 Comments ||
Top||
There was this case of four mujahids entering our western border [through the Thar desert] a few years before the Kargil war. A BSF squad caught them, shot them in the legs and left them to crawl back across. They noticed they were trying to still limp and crawl forward. So they killed them and buried them in the desert.
Sometimes nomads will see men limping and dragging themselves making furrows in the sand. When they go near, the shapes are gone but the furrows remain. Interestingly, nomads say sometimes the spirit continues to appear even up close. In that case you beat at it with a stick and it fades. Thing is, the grunts had beaten them to death with sticks [because they have to account for every bullet].
Then there was the 24 year old jihadi guy, an engineering major in Bangalore, who was building bombs in his friend's apartment. He would mumble prayers while assembling the devices. He was offed by Karnataka police, in that same apartment. For months the tenants of the apartment next door heard him mumbling his prayers. Until the landlord had a big ritual exorcism of some sort.
A short while ago, a Palestinian vehicle broke through a military checkpoint and attempted to run over IDF soldiers southwest of Hebron. An IDF soldier at the scene operated to stop the vehicle according to standard procedures by firing toward it.
#UPDATE: IDF- “Recently, the IDF thwarted an attempt by terrorist operatives of the Hamas terrorist organization to launch an explosive drone into Israeli territory in Gaza City. As a result of the downing of the drone, it fell on the launch pad and struck two militants” https://t.co/KwtqFQlzlW
“4. Hamas' attempts to rescue its people from the 'Gaza Metro' were also thwarted 5. After the fighting they will have to explain to their families why they did not return home and then we will know who was buried there 6. The IDF is preparing to expose Hamas' cover-up”
#UPDATE: IDF: A short while ago, IDF aircraft eliminated two Palestinian Islamic Jihad Surface-to-Surface missile operatives located in Khan Yunis, and in the Meghazi refugee camp pic.twitter.com/qVOkoQIGJh
Hamas announced that it will fire rockets at Tel Aviv at midnight.
The threat to target a city—to terrorize a population—is itself a violation of international law. If Hamas carries out its threat, it will be violating international law again by targeting civilians. pic.twitter.com/VZICVTB2hp
#2
now you are having ideas congrats, but the sea level maybe too low . destroy a water deposit near. Or build guided laser water bombs, you can then also sell them to combat fires all oer the world. An F-16 could take 6000t of water. or gas...
The imam and the muezzin of the mosque of the town of Busayrah, 35 km east of Deir ez-Zor, east #Syria, were wounded when unidentified gunmen targeted them.https://t.co/LOS5eUwk16
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 15, 2021
Posted by: Fred ||
05/16/2021 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11132 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
The de-escalation zone in northwest #Syria witnessed military escalation and mutual bombardment between Syrian government forces and opposition groups in the countryside of #Idlib, #Hama and #Latakia.https://t.co/gpI06mGSjJ
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 15, 2021
Posted by: Fred ||
05/16/2021 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
#1
Irony™
Posted by: Frank G ||
05/16/2021 5:28 Comments ||
Top||
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] A report by The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) said that the anonymous group SpiderZ that hacked Qard al-Hasan Association (AQAH) — Hezbollah's financial arm - exposed how Hezbollah transfers money and the role Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. 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. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s banking system plays in the process.
It said that the US Treasury Department’s designations of Lebanese banks and of multiple Hezbollah entities, financiers, and money launderers point to the complicity of Lebanese banks in Hezbollah’s financial operations, however, the AQAH hack provided more evidence of this complicity.
"Through AQAH, Lebanon’s banks grant Hezbollah access to the international banking system, 13 years after Treasury designated AQAH," the FDD report said.
"The hacked files include account information for nearly 400,000 individuals and entities. In addition to average Lebanese citizens, the documents exposed expatriates, Hezbollah cadres and institutions, so-called "major depositors," Iranian entities, and, importantly, the Lebanese banks that serviced AQAH."
Despite its designation by Washington in 2007, AQAH has maintained its relationship with Lebanese banks.
The leaked documents identify banks that provided accounts and services to the Association and maintained correspondent accounts with AQAH, including seven Hezbollah officials who were sanctioned by the US.
A research fellow at FDD Tony Badran told Asharq al-Awsat that the US sanctions against the seven Lebanese nationals it said were connected to the group and its financial firm falls in line with the 2019 US Treasury Department’s sanctions against Jammal Trust Bank SAL for allegedly facilitating banking activities for the murderous Moslem group.
On Tuesday, the US Treasury Department imposed new sanctions on seven Lebanese linked to Hezbollah and its financial arm.
The Treasury said six of the seven sanctioned were the group’s "shadow bankers," who used the cover of personal accounts at certain Lebanese banks to evade sanctions against Hezbollah’s financial arm.
"Despite exposing the ties between AQAH and a number of Lebanese banks, the US Treasury did not name these banks or explain how they were part of the scheme" said Badran.
Hezbollah has used exchange houses as way stations for transferring proceeds from its various enterprises into the Lebanese banking sector, where the funds can be laundered through the international financial system.
According to the report, the exchange houses used a variant of the hawala system, which is an alternative or parallel remittance channel enabling individuals or companies to transfer money, without moving it, through a system that records credit and debit transactions.
"Unfortunately, the US Treasury Department is still trying to differentiate between banks and Hezbollah and claims that the banks were victims. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... the problem is that Hezbollah continues to transfer money under the pretext that pressure on the Lebanese banking system could lead to its collapse," Badran explained, noting that "in reality, the system has already collapsed."
A major Iranian account holder and depositor at AQAH is Issa Tabatabaei, who represents Khamenei in Lebanon. He helped found many of the group’s institutions, including the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee, the Martyrs Foundation, and its al-Rasoul al-Aazam hospital.
The hacked AQAH documents can help the US determine which banks that have provided services to Hezbollah are beyond salvaging and whether there is a basis for subsequent terror-finance criminal investigations.
"The relationships between Lebanon’s banks and Hezbollah should be a key factor to consider when Lebanon’s economic overhaul begins."
Posted by: Fred ||
05/16/2021 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under: Hezbollah
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...Arabic for 
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...
[LI] We just thwarted an attempt by Hamas terrorists to launch a drone armed with explosives from Gaza City at Israel. The drone fell on the launch squad and killed two Hamas operatives.
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. 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. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
